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  Seize the Day

  by Saul Bellow

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  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.
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  Humboldt's Gift

  by Saul Bellow

  A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life.
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  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  Bold, expansive,and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers and operators, compiling a record of choices that is — to say the least — eccentric.
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  Henderson the Rain King

  by Saul Bellow

  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-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes. Deciding that his true destiny is as a healer,... (more)
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  To Jerusalem and Back

  by Saul Bellow

  You sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son and that her sister lost children in the 1973 war. A fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State is that, "You cannot take your right to love for granted".
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  A Theft

  by Saul Bellow

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  The Victim

  by Saul Bellow

  Bellow's second novel charts the descent into paranoia of Asa Leventhal, sub-editor of a trade magazine. With his wife away visiting her mother, Asa is alone, but not for long. His sister-in-law summons him to Staten Island to help with his sick nephew. Other demands mount, and readers witness a man losing control.
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  Dangling Man

  by Saul Bellow

  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 delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
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  Collected Stories

  by Saul Bellow

  Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Now collected for the first time in one volume and chosen by the author himself are favorites such as "What Kind of Day Did You Have?," "Leaving the Yellow House," and a previously... (more)
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  The Dean's December

  by Saul Bellow

  Corde is a Professor of Journalism and Dean of students at a Chicago university. His beautiful wife Minna is an internationally known astronomer. As the book opens the couple are in Eastern Europe. Minna had to migrated to America many years before, but now her mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semicouscious in the local State hospital. As Corde tries to help Minna grapple with an alien bureaucracy, to... (more)
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  Mr. Sammler's Planet

  by Saul Bellow

  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 Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. "Sorry for all... (more)
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  Just Revenge

  by Alan M. Dershowitz

  In his first courtroom drama,The Advocate's Devil, Alan M. Dershowitz introduced us to defense attorney Abe Ringel as he represented a rapist. That book probed a controversial legal issue--what happens when a defender doubts his own client's innocence? In Dershowitz's second legal thriller--Abe (along with the whole judicial system) is confronted with a still bigger dilemma: Is a Holocaust survivor entitled to... (more)
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  Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

  by Saul Bellow

  A collection of five short stories by Saul Bellow, including: "What Kind of Day Did You Have?", "The Thinker Prince" and "Zetland - By a Character Witness".
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  The American Short Story -- A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar

  by Thomas K. (Edited by) Parkes

  A collection of short stories by American authors from Wahington Irving to Saul Bellow.
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  Great Modern Short Novels(Lost Horizon, Red Pony,Third Man, A Single Pebble, Light in the Piazza, Seize the Day, Breakfast at Tiffany's)

  by john steinbeck

• Great Modern Short NovelsHilton Steinbeck Greene Bellow Capote Hersey

  

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  Great Modern Short Novels

  by Hilton Steinbeck Greene Bellow Capote Hersey

  seven good classics in one book
• Mosby's Memoirs & Other StoriesSaul Bellow

  

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  Mosby's Memoirs & Other Stories

  by Saul Bellow

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  Seize the Day: With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play

  by Saul Bellow