Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
Two twentieth-century literary masterpieces from the Nobel Prize winnerSaul Bellows Pulitzer Prizewinning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlies life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and ...(more)