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Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His... read more

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Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Artur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers.

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This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)

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  1. Saul Bellow (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1970
ISBN: 0670493236
Page Count: 313

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