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Herzog

Saul Bellow

Contemporary Fiction

This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily di

nobel

Lotte in Weimar

Thomas Mann

Contemporary Fiction

Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wol

german, germany, nobel

The Disordered Mind

What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

Eric R Kandel

Philosophy

Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal ab

neurology, nobel, psychiatry, psychology

Dog Years

Günter Grass

Contemporary Fiction

A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two frien

german, magicrealism, nobel

Safe Conduct

An Early Autobiography and Other Works

Boris Pasternak

Biography

The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow

autobigrophy, dissident, nobel, russia, soviet

The Debacle

Émile Zola

Classic Fiction

The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events

french, naturalism, nobel

The First Circle

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Ne

dissident, nobel, russia, russian, soviet

For the Good of the Cause

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

Like Solzhenitsyns world famous novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward

dissident, nobel, russia, russian, soviet

History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy

Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russells A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaime

history, logic, nobel, pacifism, socialist

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a clas

dissident, gulag, nobel, russia, soviet

Nana

Émile Zola

Classic Fiction

Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect t

french, naturalism, nobel