At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.[...]

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because tho[...]

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy - or at least pretend to be, but the pretence was becoming more and more difficult,[...]

Fifty years after its original publication, "Catch-22 "remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest--and most celebrated--books of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by "Time, Newsweek, "the Modern Library, and the London "Observer." Set in Ita[...]

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic "Catch-22."

In "Closing Time, " Joseph Heller returns to the characters of "Catch-22, " now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbin[...]

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Yossari[...]

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest and most celebrated books of all time. In recent years it has been named to best novels lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.
Set in Italy dur[...]

A burlesque epic in the tradition of The Goo d Soldier Schweik, Catch-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America''s involvement in Korea. '[...]

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Moderna utländska klassiker

Att vara människa, oavsett epok eller ursprungVårens klassikerbox från Repris innehåller fem moderna utländska klassiker från några av våra mest älskade författare. Glaskupan av Sylvia Plath, Moment 22 av Joseph Heller, Älskaren av Marguerite Duras,[...]

The heavily illustrated stand-alone companion book to the internationally best-selling Last Apprentice series, the series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son. The Spook's Bestiary is your guidebook to the supernatural, terrifying creatures of the dark: Learn what to do if [...]

From the author of two of our most legendary novels, Catch-22 and Something

Happened, comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a loving

evocation of a lost America and an exploration of the frontier where life turns

into literature.

No[...]