Chemistry: Impact on Society

Politics & Social Sciences

WOOD, JAMES

Joesten, Melvin D.

Johnston, David O.

Netterville, John T.

Social Sciences

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works―books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation―The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches―that range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leon Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail Lermontov―Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today, including Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Aleksandar Hemon, and Michel Houellebecq. Included in The Fun Stuff are the title essay on Keith Moon and the lost joys of drumming―which was a finalist for last year's National Magazine Awards―as well as Wood's essay on George Orwell, which Christopher Hitchens selected for the Best American Essays 2010. The Fun Stuff is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about contemporary literature.

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Vintage

Collected Stories

Bellow, Janis

BELLOW, SAUL.

Literary

Penguin??Books

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

Physical description; xvii, 318p. ; 23cm. Subjects; Religion and literature. Belief and doubt in literature. Literature - History and criticism. Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism.

World Literature

JONATHAN CAPE.

How Fiction Works

British & Irish

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

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The Elements of Algebra: Designed for the Use of Students in the University, Volumen VI (German Edition)

History

Europe

Wentworth Press

The Elements of Algebra (German Edition)

The Book Against God: A Novel

Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents' religiousness. When his father, a beloved parish priest, suddenly falls ill, Bunting returns to the Northern village of his childhood. Bunting's hopes that this visit might enable him to finally talk honestly with his parents and sort out his wayward life, are soon destroyed.
Comic, edgy, lyrical, and indignant Bunting gives the term unreliable narrator a new twist with his irrepressible incapacity to tell the truth.

Religion & Spirituality

Picador

"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick
Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels. 
In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and appreciative view of the most discussed authors writing today, including Franzen, Pynchon, Rushdie, DeLillo, Naipaul, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. 
This collection includes Wood's famous and controversial attack on "hysterical realism", and his sensitive but unsparing examinations of White Teeth and Brick Lane. The Irresponsible Self is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about modern fiction.

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

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