FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Dr. Drib]

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Additional info:

The above is a non-fictional book of literary criticism based upon a class the author taught (or continues to teach).

Regardless of its category, this sounds exciting to me, one which I will now purchase.

Off to spend some money! (Hey! it's only money!)

Thank you!

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

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Additional info:

The above is a non-fictional book of literary criticism based upon a class the author taught (or continues to teach).

It also includes the short stories, which is why I thought it fits here best.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

It also includes the short stories, which is why I thought it fits here best.

I didn't see that. That's great.

Thank you for the additional info.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

It also includes the short stories, which is why I thought it fits here best.

Thanks! I bought it out of a sense of duty!

[salty-horse]

Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)

Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and an art restorer but he’s struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects.

Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two men seemingly have nothing in common, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. But as the men grow closer, the differences between them become more stark, until Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk – for art and for love.

[Cactus Chef]

Pale Fire (Vintage International) by Vladimir Nabokov is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

**A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.

"Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group**

An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature—perfect tragicomic balance.

[salty-horse]

Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon)
Omnibus of 3 novellas.

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball, Baron Cosimo retires to the trees for the rest of his days, and Agiluf the Knight is an empty suit of armour.

Our Ancestors brings together three surreal novellas set in distinct historical worlds across medieval and early modern Europe.

In The Cloven Viscount, a nobleman returns from war as two separate beings, one cruel and one impossibly virtuous, leaving his community to suffer the consequences.

In The Baron in the Trees, a young aristocrat climbs into the branches of the Italian Riviera and refuses to touch the ground again, living out his life among the leaves while history moves below him.

In The Nonexistent Knight, a suit of armour fights in the army of Charlemagne, sustained only by will and duty.

Our Ancestors blends satire with fable, exploring how power, war and social expectation shape the self.

[nana77]

There is "On the Road: The Original Scroll", on Kobo UK, @ $2,99.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the...nd_publication)

Viking Press released a slightly edited version of the original manuscript, titled On the Road: The Original Scroll (August 16, 2007), corresponding with the 50th anniversary of original publication. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Howard Cunnell. As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft, due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Neal Cassady becomes Dean Moriarty and Allen Ginsberg becomes Carlo Marx, etc.

[salty-horse]

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel -- perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.

The international publishing sensation -- more than six million copies sold worldwide!

A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert) decides it's not too late to start over . . .

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant).

It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, but he has actually played a key role in them. Starting out in munitions as a boy, he somehow finds himself involved in many of the key explosions of the twentieth century and travels the world, sharing meals and more with everyone from Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to Mao, Franco, and de Gaulle. Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared has charmed readers across the world.

[Hollow Man]

The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee is on sale for $2.99 in the USA.

Amazon
Kobo
B&N

[salty-horse]

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald is $3 on Amazon.com

The eccentric residents of a houseboat community along the Thames in London float between loneliness and connection in this Booker Prize–winning novel.
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river's tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man whose boat dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, a faithful but abandoned wife, the diffident mother of two young girls running wild on the waterfront streets.
It is Nenna's domestic predicament that, as it deepens, draws the relations among this scrubby community together into ever more complex and comic patterns. The result is one of Fitzgerald's greatest triumphs, a novel the Booker judges deemed "flawless."
This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

[GA Russell]

I count seven of the original Hardy Boys books for free today.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C9X4GD

[Cactus Chef]

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is $4 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE CATCHER IN THE RYE**, 1951 - 2026**

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature—and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days, grappling with feelings of loneliness, grief, and alienation. His search for something genuine in a world that feels insincere and superficial remains urgent and unmistakably modern.

In Holden's comic, cutting, and painfully sincere voice, readers discover a comradeship and understanding as they recognize the ache of being lost, and the impulse toward rebellion that comes with the passage into adulthood. The Catcher in the Rye resonates deeply and personally for every new reader.