San Antonio College Library

Wharton's eighth novel is an exquisite love story set in Paris in 1975. Jack, a 49-year-old American, has walked out on his lucrative corporate career and troubled marriage to return to his first love, painting. He lives a disciplined, hand-to-mouth existence, struggling to express his long-suppressed feelings in his paintings. While working in a park and blocking the sidewalk, an elderly blind woman walks into him, knocking him off his feet and getting...

"A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris." -- "Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst...

A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.

"Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously - and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's surprise he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in...