Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March

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First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1953
First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954
Published in a Viking Compass edition 1960
Published in Penguin Books (UK) 1966
Published in Penguin Books (USA) 1984
This edition published in Penguin Books (USA) 1996
Reprinted with a new Introduction in Penguin Modern Classics 2001

Copyright Saul Bellow, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953
Copyright renewed Saul Bellow, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981
Introduction copyright Christopher Hitchens, 2001
All rights reserved

The moral right of the Introducer has been asserted

Several portions of this novel, while it was in progress, appeared in magazines in somewhat different form from the final version. Acknowledgement is made to The New Yorker, which published Chapter XXV under the title Interval in a Lifeboat; Harpers Bazaar, which published excerpts from Chapters XV and XVI under the title The Eagle; Partisan Review, and Perspectives USA, which published Chapter V under the title The Einhorns; Sewanee Review, which published Chapter II under the title The Cobbins; and The Hudson Review, which published Chapter XXIV under the title Minotouchian.

ISBN: 978-01-4191-372-8

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Saul Bellow (19152005) is the only novelist to receive three National book awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr Sammlers Planet. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humboldts Gift. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1976 for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work. In 1990, Mr Bellow was presented the National Book Award Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. He has also received the National Medal of Arts. His books include Dangling Man (1944), The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosbys Memoirs (1969), Mr Sammlers Planet (1970), Humboldts Gift (1975), To Jerusalem and Back (1976), The Deans December (1982), Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984), More Die of Heartbreak (1987), A Theft (1989), The Bellarosa Connection (1989), Something to Remember Me By (1991), It All Adds Up (1994), The Actual (1997), Ravelstein (2000) and Collected Stories (2001).

Christopher Hitchens was born in 1949 and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970. An author and journalist, he is a regular columnist for Vanity Fair and the Nation, and also contributes to the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. His books include Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies (1990); For the Sake of Argument: Selected Essays (1993); When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (1994); The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995); and, most recently, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (2001). He was Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh for the year 1997 and is currently Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York. Christopher Hichens lives in Washington, DC.

TO MY FATHER