Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read The Natural: A Novel (FSG Classics) on EtoBox?

The Natural: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker - undifferentiated, SparkNotes Staff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Natural: A Novel (FSG Classics) about?

<DIV><B>The Natural</B><BR></div><DIV><DIV><b>PRE-GAME</b></div></div><DIV><DIV><b>R</b>oy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail and hold the spurting flame in his cupped palm close to the lower berth window, but by then he had figured it was a tunnel they were passing through and was no longer surprised at the bright sight of himself holding a yellow light over his head, peering back in. As the train yanked its long tail out of the thundering tunnel, the kneeling reflection dissolved and he felt a splurge of freedom at the view of the moon-hazed Western hills bulked against night broken by sprays of summer lightning, although the season was early spring. Lying back, elbowed up on his long side, sleepless still despite the lulling train, he watched the land flowing and waited with suppressed expectancy for a sight of the Mississippi, a thousand miles away.</div><DIV>Having no timepiece he appraised the night and decided it was moving toward dawn. As he was looking, there flowed along this bone-white farmhouse with sagging skeletal porch, alone in untold miles of moonlight, and before it this white-faced, long-boned boy whipped with train-whist

Who reads The Natural: A Novel (FSG Classics)?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker - undifferentiated, SparkNotes Staff
Publisher
Ferrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
1952
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374502003
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating
3.62 / 5 (7,864 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

Other editions & translations

More by Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker - undifferentiated, SparkNotes Staff

Browse all works by Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker - undifferentiated, SparkNotes Staff

Similar books