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“I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it’s at.” – John CheeverSaul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Dleisher. At the time of Humboldt’s death, Charlie’s life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he’s enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic Mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around.This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scho
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- Author
- Saul Bellow, Martin Amis
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141188768
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (78 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Humboldt's Gift (2011)
- Modern Classics Humboldts Gift (2007)
- Humboldt's Gift (1976 Pulitzer Prize) (2007)
- Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) (2008)
- Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (1976)
- Humboldt's Gift (1975)
- El legado de Humboldt (Contemporanea) (2006)
- The history of MacMaster : McMaster family (1975)
- El legado de Humboldt (Contemporanea) (2011)
- Humboldt's Gift (2008)
- Humboldt's Gift (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (1996)
- Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) (1975)
- Humboldt's Gift (1985)
- Humboldt's Gift (1976)
- Humboldt's Gift (2013)
- Freedom at Midnight (1976)
- Modern Classics Humboldts Gift (1975)
- Humboldt's Gift (1975) (1976 Pulitzer Prize) (2008)
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