Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374530273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374530273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374530273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
A Cool Million
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0735253714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A great American satirist, Nathanael West laughs in the face of the Horatio Alger myth. Like many an Alger, Lemuel Pitkin leaves his home on the farm to seek his fortune in the Big City. By the time he is through, he has been robbed, jailed, has lost his teeth, his eye, a leg, his scalp, and has witnessed a remarkable number of assults and political riots. In A Cool Million, West etches a classic parable of America in the chaotic Thirties. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0735253714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A great American satirist, Nathanael West laughs in the face of the Horatio Alger myth. Like many an Alger, Lemuel Pitkin leaves his home on the farm to seek his fortune in the Big City. By the time he is through, he has been robbed, jailed, has lost his teeth, his eye, a leg, his scalp, and has witnessed a remarkable number of assults and political riots. In A Cool Million, West etches a classic parable of America in the chaotic Thirties. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Miss Lonelyhearts
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in expectation of health and ease.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in expectation of health and ease.
Nathanael West: Novels & Other Writings (LOA #93)
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
Literature and the Grotesque
Author: Michael J. Meyer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Complete Works of Nathanael West
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Towers of Trebizond
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
The Day of the Locust
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Letters From The Earth
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Youcanprint
ISBN: 8892658379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.
Publisher: Youcanprint
ISBN: 8892658379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.