Williston Bibb Barrett is the last gentleman, a twenty-five-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City with no plans for the future and detached roots from his past. The simple purchase of a telescope one summer day changes his life. For while searching for an elusive peregrine falcon [...]

Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had practiced psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occurring with the townsfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a dangerous to plot drug the local water supply, and a discovery that takes More into the undersi[...]

In "Message" i"n the" "Bottle," Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us aga[...]

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern

literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.

The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surv[...]

Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1[...]

In 1962, Walker Percy (1916-1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradicto[...]

Historian tuulet II- oppikirjan teksti on mukaansatempaavaa ja helppolukuista, jolloin oppilas havaitsee tapahtumien välisiä syy- ja seuraussuhteita. Selkeyttä lisää käsitteiden huolellinen avaaminen.Oppikirjan tekstit ja tehtävät nivovat yhteen menneisyyden ja nykyisyyden. Ympäristöä tar[...]