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Human Comedy (An Hbj Modern Classic)
Published: 1989-10-31
Hardcover: 256 pages
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The story of an American family in wartime.
Human Croquet
Published: 1998
Paperback: 0 pages
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Once it had been the great forest of Lythe--a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees.��And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself.But over the centuries the forest had ...
Human Croquet: A Novel
Published: 2013-03-29
Kindle Edition: 352 pages
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearPart fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to...
Human Resources: Stories (Tin House New Voice)
Published: 2007-03-07
Paperback: 225 pages
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Humorous, energetic, and inventive, the stories in Josh Goldfaden’s debut collection are laugh-out-loud funny. Goldfaden’s genius is pushing the limits of absurdity without sacrificing the emotional core of his characters or their stories. A nanny works for a traveling writers ...
The Human Stain
Published: 2001-05-08
Paperback: 361 pages
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Set in 1998, when ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciations and rituals of purification, the newest novel by award-winning author Philip Roth concludes his eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives begun in "American Pastoral" and continued in "I Married a Communist"....
Human Traces
Published: 2005-09-26
Hardcover: 384 pages
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What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces.The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head i...
The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom
Published: 2010-08-26
Paperback: 122 pages
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The Humanist Approach to Happiness is a book that basically says - here are personal ethics, here is why they are important, and here is how you can apply them to your daily life and why doing so will help you live a happier more productive life. It isn't a philosophy book so much as a book about the...
Humboldt's Gift
Published: 1996
Paperback: 496 pages
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For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in...
Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
Published: 2008-10-28
Paperback: 512 pages
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“I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it’s at.” –John CheeverSaul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citri...
The Hummingbird's Daughter : A Novel
Published: 2005-05-17
Hardcover: 512 pages
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The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea’s long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher...
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