Read The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million

The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million

Nathanael West

4.9/5 (27695 ratings)

Description:The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West’s vision of American modernity is terrifyingly comical and diagnoses the tawdriness and meretriciousness of much of American popular culture. His greatest work, Miss Lonelyhearts, which begins this collection, is unique in modern literature. It describes New York in the early years of the Great Depression through the point of view of an ‘agony aunt’ who corresponds with his suffering readers in the guise of Miss Lonelyhearts: ‘(Are you in trouble? – Do you need advice?)’. A Cool Million is, as its subtitle suggests, the ‘dismantling’ of a myth, here a caustic satire of the ‘rags to riches’ story. West’s final novel, The Day of the Locust, is a comic, yet apocalyptic account of the fantasies of 1930s Hollywood. This volume concludes with West’s parodic and surreal first venture into fiction, The Dream Life of Balso Snell. Henry Claridge’s introduction to this new edition of West’s fictional writings contextualises his work in the United States of the Great Depression, in his evocation of 1930s Hollywood (where he worked as a writer of screenplays), and in the larger context of his Eastern European Jewish background, and, particularly, his reading of Dostoyesvky. The text comes with extensive annotations, a note on the textual history of West’s writings, and a guide to further reading for both the student and the general reader.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million. To get started finding The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 414

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Benediction Books

Release: 2009

ISBN: 1849029687

Description: The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West’s vision of American modernity is terrifyingly comical and diagnoses the tawdriness and meretriciousness of much of American popular culture. His greatest work, Miss Lonelyhearts, which begins this collection, is unique in modern literature. It describes New York in the early years of the Great Depression through the point of view of an ‘agony aunt’ who corresponds with his suffering readers in the guise of Miss Lonelyhearts: ‘(Are you in trouble? – Do you need advice?)’. A Cool Million is, as its subtitle suggests, the ‘dismantling’ of a myth, here a caustic satire of the ‘rags to riches’ story. West’s final novel, The Day of the Locust, is a comic, yet apocalyptic account of the fantasies of 1930s Hollywood. This volume concludes with West’s parodic and surreal first venture into fiction, The Dream Life of Balso Snell. Henry Claridge’s introduction to this new edition of West’s fictional writings contextualises his work in the United States of the Great Depression, in his evocation of 1930s Hollywood (where he worked as a writer of screenplays), and in the larger context of his Eastern European Jewish background, and, particularly, his reading of Dostoyesvky. The text comes with extensive annotations, a note on the textual history of West’s writings, and a guide to further reading for both the student and the general reader.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million. To get started finding The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million

The Collected Works of Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust; The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million

More Books

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust

Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust

Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust

The Collected Works of Nathanael West

The Collected Works of Nathanael West

Miss Lonelyhearts

Miss Lonelyhearts

Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million

Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million

A Cool Million

A Cool Million

Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney

Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley and James Agee

Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley and James Agee