The author presents his 1996 work, The Harper's Essay, offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.

Product Description: The second in an annual series of two-volume boxed sets (1955-1956 and 1957-1958).This gift box set collects the paperback editions of third volume and fourth volumes in the best-selling and acclaimed series, taking us from the mid- to late 1950s as Linus learns to talk and becomes even more dependent on his security blanket, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy’s unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final shape, and Charlie Brown becomes… well, even more Charlie Brown-ish! With introductions by Matt Groening (The Simpsons) and Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections)...read more

Product Description: Tercer novela de Jonathan Franzen, Las correcciones marcó un punto de inflexión en la trayectoria de su autor y lo consagró como uno de los más destacados escritores contemporáneos y uno de los más finos intérpretes de nuestra época.

Enid Lambert begins to worry about her husband when he begins to withdraw and lose himself in negativity and depression as he faces Parkinson's disease, in a Spanish-language edition of the National Book Award-winning novel. (General Fiction)

Product Description: Tercer novela de Jonathan Franzen, Las correcciones marcó un punto de inflexión en la trayectoria de su autor y lo consagró como uno de los más destacados escritores contemporáneos y uno de los más finos intérpretes de nuestra época.

Product Description: The Bookclub-in-a-Box guide to Franzen’s novel takes readers deeper into the world of Enid and Alfred Lambert and their family of three children: Gary, Chip and Denise. It is Enid’s goal to bring her grown and dispersed family back together for a Christmas celebration; a last chance to have everyone together before something serious happens to Alfred, a fast-failing victim of Parkinson’s disease...read more

Product Description: With its hilarious portrayal of a dysfunctional American family, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections--a bestseller and a National Book Award winner--took the literary scene by storm. What is Franzen's take on life in the United States today? What are the "corrections" Franzen refers to in the title? Why did Franzen balk at being picked for Oprah's Book Club™? Answers to all these questions and more are found in the pages of this insightful guide...read more

An intimate memoir by the award-winning author of The Corrections describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, the influence of Kafka's fiction on his quest to lose his virginity, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, global warming, and the life lessons he has learned from birds. Read by Jonathan Franzen. Simultaneous.

The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

A #1 A New York Times Bestseller, An Oprah's Book Club Selection, An Indie Next Pick, A National Book Award-winning Author --Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal neighbor, an enviably perfect mother, and the wife of Walter's dreams. She and Walter -- environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man -- did their part to build a better world. But in the new millennium, something is happening to the Berglunds.

A #1 A New York Times Bestseller, An Oprah's Book Club Selection, An Indie Next Pick, A National Book Award-winning Author --Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal neighbor, an enviably perfect mother, and the wife of Walter's dreams. She and Walter -- environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man -- did their part to build a better world. But in the new millennium, something is happening to the Berglunds.

Product Description: During the American 1950s, most upper-middle class men led similar lives: they lived in the suburbs, took the train to work every day, wore similarly cut suits, and, when they returned home at night, they unwound with a drink prepared by their wives...read more

The author presents his 1996 work, 'The Harper's Essay,' offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.

Product Description: Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel...read more

Product Description: A GREAT AMERICAN WRITER'S CONFRONTATION WITH A GREAT EUROPEAN CRITIC-A PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL AWAKENINGA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire...read more