Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. His sixth book and fifth novel by the author of The Graduate.

Elsinor

Charles Webb

McGraw=Hill

The Graduate

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

This is the story of Benjamin who falls prey to the sexual advances of his girlfriend's mother. Compromising situations lead to a compromised future and Benjamin must choose between the two women.

The Graduate (Essential Penguin)

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of money, cocktails and pool parties in the suburbs, just like them. For Benjamin, however, this isn't quite enough. When his parents' friend Mrs Robinson, a formidable older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin an affair, it seems he might have found a way out. That is, until her daughter Elaine comes into the picture, and things get far more complicated.

Modern Classics The Graduate

Penguin

The Marriage Of A Young Stockbroker

J.B.Lippincott

New Cardiff

Little,Brown

Published in 1963, Charles Webb's The Graduate was a sly and provocative first novel that is often overshadowed by the success of Mike Nichol's sensational 1967 film. The Graduate is a novel that speaks to its time: a time when young Americans were beginning to question, for perhaps the first time, the materialistic values that the postwar culture had taught them. Its hero is at once worldly and naive, a dichotomy that won't last for very long as Benjamin Braddock, the appealing young man of great promise who seems to have everything going for him, sets out to explore his world. fter returning to his parent's home after graduation, Braddock ponders his future and finds himself in a state of confusion and depression. It seems the only thing that really rallies him is the attention of Mrs. Robinson, the bored attractive wife of his father's law partner, who makes a play for Benjamin who responds in kind. What the affair lacks in passion, it makes up for in intensity. The affair with Mrs. Robinson continues until Benjamin discovers the Robinsons' beautiful daughter Elaine, with whom he falls promptly in love. Driven to a fit of jealousy, Mrs. Robinson will have none of it, and she tells her daughter of her affair with Benjamin in an attempt to separate the two. Undeterred however, Benjamin pursues Elaine, even though she becomes involved with somebody else. He pursues her all the way to the altar, in fact. The Graduate takes a hard look at contemporary society and social mores, and while it does so with panache and humor, the underlying message is not lost on the reader. It is a scathing look at how vacuous and materialistic middle-class American life had become in the mid-20th century. The Chicago Sunday Review wrote that The Graduate "moves with the speed and drive of a runaway locomotive."

RosettaBooks

Pochi anni dopo l’improvviso e planetario successo del suo romanzo di esordio, Charles Webb ci racconta la storia di un tenero e sensibile pittore di provincia, sballottato fra una vicina di casa che tenta di togliersi la vita e una coppia di galleristi che pretende di trasformarlo in una star. Narrato in prima persona con uno stile coinvolgente, raffinato e - quasi a negazione dei successi precedenti - privo di dialoghi, la vicenda si snoda attraverso periodi di lavoro frenetico (elaborati quadri che rappresentano solo arance) alternati a quello che il narratore definisce Grande Slam, una colossale sbronza che si protrae per periodi indefiniti. E, sorpresa, la magia di Mrs Robinson si ripete anche qui: lo stesso senso di smarrimento di fronte a un mondo di plastica, e in più l’impatto devastante di un artista con la fama e il successo.\nSo abbastanza bene perché sono un artista, e cioè perché è l'unico modo che ho per sigillare e mettere da parte il passato. Non devo raggiungere la fama o il riconoscimento o il successo in senso commerciale, ma quello che è importante per me è continuare a farlo, continuare a dipingere e mantenere viva quella sensazione che ho quando metto i colori sulla tela e faccio sembrare le cose che dipingo il più possibile simili a come le vedo. Nient'altro importa.

Booze: A novel

Stonehill

Graduate

Dramas & Plays

Quality Paperback Bookclub

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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