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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow's tragicomic HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975), the main character, Charlie Citrine, is a successful writer who is tortured by a feeling of emptiness and by his troubling memories....... read more
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Herzog
Saul Bellow
HERZOG, one of Saul Bellow's most celebrated novels, portrays (via the hero's sad, manic, ironic letters) the slow decline of Moses Herzog, a failed writer, teacher, husband, and father,...... read more
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Seize the Day
Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow's title novella, Tommy Wilhelm, at 42, is in the midst of what seems to be a serious decline. He is separated from his wife and family, estranged from his father, unemployed,...... read more
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Mr. Sammler's Planet
Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow's 1970 more - bitter - than - sweet novel about alienation and moral decay, Artur Sammler, a 70 - year - old survivor of Auschwitz, spends his days quietly and pointlessly...... read more
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Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow's comic fable, Eugene Henderson, a discontented 55-year-old American millionaire, decides that money and all that it can buy is not enough. He travels to Africa, lives...... read more
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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow's tragicomic HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975), the main character, Charlie Citrine, is a successful writer who is tortured by a feeling of emptiness and by his troubling memories....... read more
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Ravelstein
Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow's memoir-like and highly autobiographic- al novel, Abe Ravelstein is a well-known and highly respected professor of political philosophy--a character based on Bellow's...... read more
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Dangling Man
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow's first published novel portrays the thoughts and discomforts of Joseph, a young man in Chicago who quits his job in expectation of being drafted into the army during World...... read more
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Collected Stories
Saul Bellow
Professor Kate Fanshler made her debut in 1964, but Amanda Cross only began writing short stories featuring her academic sleuth in 1987. These nine stories feature the charming detective...... read more
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It All Adds Up
Saul Bellow
In this collection of essays, Bellow reveals his multifaceted personality and wide range of interests, with pieces about Mozart, FDR, Tuscany, Vermont, and his Chicago boyhood. read more
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More Die of Heartbreak
Saul Bellow
Professor Benn Crader, an esteemed botanist, has been living a rarefied intellectual life. Then he marries a sublimely beautiful woman whose gorgeousness conceals a deeply avaricious...... read more
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The Victim
Saul Bellow
An editor named Asa Leventhal is left alone in New York during a heat wave while his wife is away. He is accosted by a menacing and anti-Semitic man named Kirby Allbee, who angrily...... read more
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