Professor Benn Crader knows microbiology, polar lichen, root systems, and Amazonian flora. But when it comes to the woman he is about to marry, he knows only that she is beautiful, rich , and her breasts are a little too far apart. And what he doesn't know about her is going to get him into one hell of a mess.
Professor Crader--and his adoring, Paris-educated, Russian-speaking nephew Kenneth--has been living a charmed life of rarefied conversation, fascinating thoughts, and brilliant discoveries. But now the woman Kenneth loves has left him in search of rougher sex, while Uncle Benn is about to marry into a family of midwestern penthouse piranhas. Suddenly, with the brilliant professor a step away from total ruin, the time for action has come. And for two men of intellect, only the most desperate deeds will do.
More Die of Heartbreak is Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow at the height of his literary and comic gifts. A novel of the loftiest ideas and the basest of instincts, More Die of Heartbreak pits two painfully clueless geniuses against the schemes of their family, their lovers, and mankind at its absolute best--and worst.
Editorial Reviews
"Bellow's comedy is cunningly planned: we rollick, then we pause to think." --Newsweek
"This Nobel laureate again proves he can give eloquent expression to the significant issues of modern life." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Saul Bellow, the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, is the author of numerous novels, novellas, and short stories, including The Adventures of Augie March and Humboldt's Gift.
![Walden, a veritable treasury of American naturalism, teems with biting social observations about daily human life, not least among them:
"Our life is frittered away by detail....Simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau built his small hut on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years he lived there as simply as possible, seeking zthe essential facts of lifey and learning to eliminate the unnecessary details--material and spiritual--that intrude upon human happiness. He described his experiences in Walden, using vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature into richly evocative metaphors to live by. George Eliot's review of Walden singles out qualities that have attracted readers for generations, namely "a deep poetic sensibility," as well as Thoreau's own "refined [and] hardy mind." In a world obsessed with technology and luxury, Walden seems more relevant today than ever.
After being imprisoned for refusing to pay Concord's poll tax, Thoreau recounted his experience in an 1848 lecture, "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in Relation to Government." The speech, hardly noticed in Thoreau's lifetime, was later published as "Civil Disobedience." Today it is widely considered the single most important essay concerning the incumbent duties of American citizens and has inspired major civil movements around the world.
With an Introduction and Notes by Jonathan Levin](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ezptpblrxu/images/stencil/500x659/products/1113/1811/WaldenCivilBarnesHardcover__88572.1660081611.jpg?c=2 "Walden, a veritable treasury of American naturalism, teems with biting social observations about daily human life, not least among them:
\"Our life is frittered away by detail....Simplify, simplify.\"
Henry David Thoreau built his small hut on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years he lived there as simply as possible, seeking zthe essential facts of lifey and learning to eliminate the unnecessary details--material and spiritual--that intrude upon human happiness. He described his experiences in Walden, using vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature into richly evocative metaphors to live by. George Eliot's review of Walden singles out qualities that have attracted readers for generations, namely \"a deep poetic sensibility,\" as well as Thoreau's own \"refined [and] hardy mind.\" In a world obsessed with technology and luxury, Walden seems more relevant today than ever.
After being imprisoned for refusing to pay Concord's poll tax, Thoreau recounted his experience in an 1848 lecture, \"The Rights and Duties of the Individual in Relation to Government.\" The speech, hardly noticed in Thoreau's lifetime, was later published as \"Civil Disobedience.\" Today it is widely considered the single most important essay concerning the incumbent duties of American citizens and has inspired major civil movements around the world.
With an Introduction and Notes by Jonathan Levin")