A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell

A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374530273

Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."

A Cool Million

A Cool Million
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780464989509

A Cool Million subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin," is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression and is written in a bracing, mock-heroic style that has lost none of its wit or power.

Miss Lonelyhearts

Miss Lonelyhearts
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1969
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811202152

Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in expectation of health and ease.

The Towers of Trebizond

The Towers of Trebizond
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1956
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781590170588

Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.

The Complete Works of Nathanael West

The Complete Works of Nathanael West
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1957
Genre: Advice columnists
ISBN:

'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), originally published in Paris, is in words of Robert Coates 'a fantasy, about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse.' 'Miss Lonelyhearts' (1933) is considered his [the author's] masterpiece. 'It is one of the books, ' writes Malcolm Cowley, 'that had very few readers for the first edition, but simply refuse to be forgotten.' 'A Cool Million' (1936), with the subtitle, 'The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, ' is a satiric success story in the midst of the depression, written in mock Horatio Alger Style. 'The Day of the Locust' (1939), which is considered the best novel ever written about Hollywood, is a savage indictment.'

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Flashlight Walking

Flashlight Walking
Author: Cathy Peterson
Publisher: Suncreek Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781932057096

Imagine that you are living the "American Dream": a family man with a respected position at a Fortune 500 company, a two-story home, two kids, two cars, and money in the bank. Now picture yourself and your family receiving the news that you have cancer, a diagnosis that promises a defensive battle for survival. How much would this test your faith and the faith of your family? For Bill Peterson, the American dream became a nightmare. Within six months of the cancer diagnosis, his employer, Enron, collapsed and he lost his health insurance and then his home. The collapse of Enron has been a confusing mass of high finance, corporate deception, and Wall Street shenanigans. Flashlight Walking juxtaposes a human life, and death, against the unemotional and swift life, and death, of the fifth-largest corporation in the world. Join Bill and Cathy Peterson as they travel this incredible journey with God teaching trust only one step at a time. The direction -- the light -- seemed only the size of a flashlight beam! It's a love story, an adventure, a soap opera, and a war movie, all rolled into one. Share the Petersons' story as they lose everything of the way of life they once knew -- their home of fifteen years, their second car, their security. And experience their conviction of the presence of God in their lives! Book jacket.

Letters From The Earth

Letters From The Earth
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Youcanprint
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8892658379

The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.