A fourth installment of classics features the author's literary alter ego character, Nathan Zuckerman, in a single-volume collection that includes the pieces The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Prague Orgy. 15,000 first printing.[...]
Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed "American Trilogy," a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In "American Pastoral" (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tran[...]
The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. "The Dying Animal "(2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from "The Breast "(1972) and "The Professor""of Desire "(1977). Now an eminent cultural critic in his sixties, Kepesh exper[...]
What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate "Nemeses," the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in this final volume of The Library of[...]
Volume 2 in what will be the definitive 8-volume collector's edition of Philip Roth's fiction includes Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, When She Was Good, and The Breast.[...]
An anthology of three major works includes The Great American Novel, a farcical celebration of baseball; My Life as a Man, which follows a tragic marriage of obsessive need; and The Professor of Desire, in which a man ventures into the world of erotic possibilities.[...]
This is an accessible resource to the animals that have become extinct during human history. Everyone is familiar with the Dodo and the Wooly Mammoth, but how many people have heard of the Scimitar Cat and the Falkland Island Fox? "Extinct Animals" portrays over 60 remarkable animals that have been [...]
In this comprehensive overview, readers will gain a better understanding of the various theories, perspectives, and research that characterize contemporary themes in child development. The book uses a contextual approach to examine the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations of chil[...]