Books, Literature & Fiction, Authors, A-Z, ( V )

Page 1 of 55 | next

Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Dial Press Trade Paperback (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-01-12)

Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
by Henry Holt & Co (Hardcover)

Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Champions
by Delta (Paperback) (Release Date: 1974-03-15)

Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
by The Dial Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 1998-09-08)

The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.

Paul Theroux, Ursula K. Leguin, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Andre Dubus, ...
Playboy Best of Fiction, v5 (Best of Playboy Fiction)
by Playboy Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 1997-07-01)

Paul Theroux: Dog Days (30 min)It was a time of excessive heat, unwholesome influences – and an overpowering lust for the Chinese servant girl.Theroux is a novelist, short story and travel writer. His more than two dozen books include Riding the Iron Rooster and Mosquito Coast.DOG DAYS, by Paul Theroux, originally appeared in Playboy Magazine (November, 1971) ©1971 Playboy.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Fortitude (30 min)She was a lovely old lady – at least what was left of her – and she had the best set of sweetbreads that money could buy.Vonnegut is the bestselling author of many works, including Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions and, most recently, Hocus Pocus.FORTITUDE, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., originally appeared in Playboy Magazine (September, 1968) ©1968 Playboy.Ursula K. Le Guin: Unlocking the Air (28 min)This is history. Soldiers stand in a row before the palace, their muskets ready. Stefana is ready too.Le Guin is best known for her fantasy and ...

Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country
by Random House Trade Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-01-16)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.” –Los Angeles Times“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.” –The New York Times Book ReviewIn a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions.“For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in ...

Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night
by Dial Press Trade Paperback (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-05-11)

Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a “true artist”* with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, “one of the best living American writers.”Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.*The New York Times“A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer…a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time

Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano
by The Dial Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-01-12)

Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.

Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) (Oxford Mark Twain)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of Twain's best-loved tales. A pioneering work of science fiction, it vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary as well. In this complex and ambitious tour de force, an inventive nineteenth-century resident of Hartford named Hank Morgan travels back in time to sixteenth-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas. Along the way he founds the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, organizes a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, and "keeps up a steady fire of flippancies, so frequent that no reader registers all of them on the first go-around," as Louis Budd reminds us in his introduction. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain's most complex and disturbing meditation on technology, as well as a powerful consideration of politics and power. The original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, ...

Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Dial Press Trade Paperback (Paperback) (Release Date: 1998-09-08)

A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh.

Page 1 of 55 | next