tutorial, study guide, web links, and further reading A Silver Dish (1984) is one of five pieces in the collection Him with his Foot in his Mouth. The story was first published in The New Yorker for … [Read more...]
Saul Bellow
tutorials, critical commentary, and web links
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A Theft
tutorial, commentary, study resources, web links A Theft (1987) is one of three stories in the collection Something to Remember Me By. It was originally intended for magazine publication, but was … [Read more...]
Cousins
tutorial, study guide, web links, and further reading Cousins (1984) is one of five pieces (four stories and a fragment) published in the collection Him with his Foot in his Mouth. The other stories … [Read more...]
Herzog
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links Herzog (1964) won several literary prizes when it was first published, and was voted one of the best 100 novels written in English by Time … [Read more...]
Him with his Foot in his Mouth
tutorial, commentary, study resources, web links Him with his Foot in his Mouth first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly for November 1982. It is currently published with four other stories in a … [Read more...]
Humboldt’s Gift
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links Humboldt's Gift (1975) was Saul Bellow's major follow-up to his two previous best-sellers, Henderson the Rain King (1959) and Herzog (1964). It is … [Read more...]
It All Adds Up
essays, memoirs, cultural history and criticism It All Adds Up (1994) is a collection of non-fiction writing that Saul Bellow published shortly before his last two novels, The Actual (1997) and … [Read more...]
More Die of Heartbreak
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links More Die of Heartbreak (1987) comes in the middle of Saul Bellow’s mature period as a novelist. He had won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the … [Read more...]
Mr Sammler’s Planet
tutorial, study guide, commentary, further reading, web links Mr Sammler's Planet (1969) was first published in back-to-back issues of Atlantic Monthly. It was subsequently issued in one-volume … [Read more...]
Ravelstein
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links Ravelstein (2000) was Saul Bellow's last novel. It follows a pattern established by his earlier work, Humboldt's Gift (1975) in being a fictional … [Read more...]
Saul Bellow chronology
1915. Saul Bellow born Solomon Bellows in Quebec, Canada to immigrant Jewish parents from St Petersburg, Russia. 1918. Family moves to Montreal. Bellow begins religious training and speaks French … [Read more...]
Saul Bellow essays
essays, memoirs, cultural history and criticism Saul Bellow generated a prodigious output as a writer of novels, stories, novellas, travel books, even plays - though these were largely unperformed. … [Read more...]
Saul Bellow letters
an essay-review of the collected letters Saul Bellow left behind a sizeable body of fiction , travel writing, and essays on his departure in 2005 – but he was also a prolific correspondent. This huge … [Read more...]
Something to Remember Me By
tutorial, study guide, web links, further reading Something to Remember Me By (1990) first appeared in Esquire magazine. It then became the title story in a collection of three novellas published … [Read more...]
The Adventures of Augie March
tutorial, study guide, commentary, further reading The Adventures of Augie March (1954) was Saul Bellow's third novel. It was widely regarded as his 'breakthrough' work, in that it was not only … [Read more...]
The Bellarosa Connection
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links The Bellarosa Connection (1989) is a novella in which Saul Bellow examines three aspects of what he calls 'Jewish history' - and to which might be … [Read more...]
The Dean’s December
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links The Dean's December (1982) was Saul Bellow’s first novel after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Like many of his other works it … [Read more...]
What Kind of Day Did You Have?
tutorial, study guide, web links, and further reading What Kind of Day Did You Have? (1984) is one of five pieces in the collection Him with his Foot in his Mouth. It first appeared in slightly … [Read more...]