Pdf: Henderson The Rain King

Novel about a self-centered man and his adventures in Africa. ...

The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson's search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55 ...

This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piec ...

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-a ...

Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism explores Saul Bellow's moral and philosophical affinity with the writers of American transcendentalism, especial ...

What Is Economics And Why Does It Matter? Could the United States experience another Great Depression? Is the Social Security program doomed for future gen ...

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A second collection of definitive Bellow works includes Seize the Day, in which a failed actor makes a risky investment; Henderson the Rain King, in which ...

"This collection brings together [Adam Kirsch's] essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literatu ...

"This age is full of fearfull abysses. If people are to go ahead they must move and into and through these abysses. The old definitions of balance and sani ...

Arranged chronologically, this literary time capsule displays the full extent of Bellow's nonfiction, including criticism, interviews, speeches and other r ...

In More Die of Heartbreak, our erratic narrator explains to his audience that he must abandon Paris for the Midwest. Of course, Kenneth merely wants to be ...

Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is fundamentally radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, he undermines accep ...

Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups d ...

Collects stories featuring such characters as art critic Victor Wulpy, cheeerful and tragic Hattie Waggoner, and death-bed witness Dr. Braun. ...

Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American f ...

In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner's moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journey throug ...

Broadway producer Billy Rose refuses to see Harry, an immigrant he helped rescue, which forces Harry's wife to confront Rose. ...

A portrait of the decorated American writer draws on unprecedented access to his papers and extensive interviews to trace his literary development, rise to ...

A trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and "greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century" (James Wood, The New Republic) While Saul Bell ...

In the first critical study to deal with all of Bellow's fictional works to date, Fuchs gives a unique look at the novelist's imagination at work. Granted ...

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The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere. ...

Rev. and edited version of the author's doctoral thesis, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2001. ...

This is the first of two volumes commemorating Friedman's life and work, and includes essays on American literature, poetry, and remembrances. ...

This is a study revealing Saul Bellow's views on the decline of humanism. With chapters on each of Bellow's novels from "Dangling" to "More Die of Heartbre ...

With Huckleberry Finn, American fiction changed radically and shifted its setting to the middle of the country. A focus on social issues replaced the philo ...

""I don't believe in tame poetry. Poetry busts guts."-Frank Stanford. The poetry publishing event of the season, this six-hundred-plus page book highlights ...

Whether you have a stubbed toe or a stubborn case of the blues, within these pages you’ll find a cure in the form of a novel – or a combination of novels ...

Provides a comprehensive reference to the novel in American literature with over 900 entries containing critical analyses and synopses of individual novels ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever's National Book Award-winning first novel, finally back in print. A Vintage Original. By 1957, John Cheever was already ...

The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is ...