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A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin (1934) by Nathanael West is a biting political satire that mercilessly parodies the American Dream. Written with sharp irony and grotesque humor, the novel dismantles the myth of success through the tragicomic story of an...
The Dream Life of Balso Snell is Nathanael West’s surreal and satirical debut novel, a bold and unconventional work that defies traditional narrative form. Irreverent and absurd, it reflects West’s fascination with the grotesque, the fantastic, and the collapse of...
Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust is a dark, satirical portrait of Hollywood during the Great Depression, where dreams of fame and success often dissolve into disillusionment, violence, and despair. Widely regarded as West’s masterpiece, the novel captures both...
This collection brings together the complete novels of Nathanael West, one of the most original and incisive writers of 20th-century American literature. Known for his dark humor, biting satire, and unflinching critique of society, West’s works remain as...
An Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. Miss Lonelyhearts is an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column for the lovelorn and lonesome, a duty that the other newspaper staff considers a joke. As Miss Lonelyhearts...
A Cool Million presents the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, piece by piece. As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire's Candide, which satirized the philosophical optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. Pitkin...
West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse. Balso, the protagonist, comes across the Trojan Horse in the tall grass around Troy and promptly seeks a...
The Day of the Locust is a novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California.The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett, who has been hired by a Hollywood studio to do scene design and painting. While he works...
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring...
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules.But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring...
In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is...
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