Category: Penguin Classics

"What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow's eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow's vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it." -Chicago Sun-Times

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting care...
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More Die of Heartbreak

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Aug-13

Seller ID: 248903

ISBN: 142437743

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Actual: A Novella

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 404530

ISBN: 143105841

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: October 2006

Seller ID: 454489

ISBN: 0143039571

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The Adventures of Augie March is the great American Novel. Search no further." -Martin Amis

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for a series of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as unworthy. His own oddity is reflected in the companions he encounters--plungers, schemers, risk-takers, and "hole-and corner" operators like the would-be tycoon Einhorn or...
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation

By: Beowulf/Alezander, Michael

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Jul-13

Seller ID: 442306

ISBN: 140449310

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pensees (Penguin Classics)

By: Blaise Pascal

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: Dec-95

Seller ID: 417193

ISBN: 140446451

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pensees (Penguin Classics)

By: Blaise Pascal

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics: Dec-95

Seller ID: 443814

ISBN: 140446451

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love

By: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Jun-10

Seller ID: 98214

ISBN: 141034793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Testament of Youth

By: Brittain, Vera

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mar-15

Seller ID: 434208

ISBN: 143039237

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jane Eyre

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2014

Seller ID: 457316

ISBN: 0141441143

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Charlotte Bront 's moving masterpiece - the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations" (The Guardian). Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But wh...
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Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

By: Brown, Charles Brockden

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Feb-10

Seller ID: 79749

ISBN: 140390626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Clotel or the President's Daughter

By: Brown, WIlliam Wells

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 403111

ISBN: 142437727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Reflections on the Revolution in France

By: Burke, Edmund

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nov-15

Seller ID: 99559

ISBN: 140432043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings

By: Carnegie, Andrew

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Apr-14

Seller ID: 442523

ISBN: 014303989X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Words of wisdom from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie

Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good, and capitalism. Carnegie's commitment to ensuring and promoting the welfare of his fellow human beings through philanthropic deeds ranged from donations to universities and museums to establishing more than 2,500 public libraries in the English-speaking world, and he gave away more than $350 million toward...
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