Henry Roth: 8 books

This "landmark of the American literary century" (Boston Globe) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction. Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his...

Noem het slaap, oorspronkelijk uitgegeven in 1934, is een klassieker die generatie na generatie opnieuw wordt ontdekt. Deze grootse joods-Amerikaanse bildungsroman beschrijft de jeugd van immigrant David Schearl, die met zijn ouders per stoomboot in New York arriveert om een nieuw leven te beginnen....

La New York di inizio Novecento vista con gli occhi di un bambino ebreo. Un classico della letteratura mondiale. Il «caso Henry Roth» è forse unico nella letteratura del Novecento. Nel 1934 Chiamalo sonno, opera prima di uno sconosciuto newyorkese di 28 anni, fu salutato dalla critica come...

“His early novel Call It Sleep was his Ulysses. His late work An American Type is his Grapes of Wrath.”—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times This “glorious, evocative, literary novel for the ages” (Los Angeles Times) has finally taken its place within the great canon of American fiction....

When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having...

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Some of the differences are of minor importance, but a comparison will help materially to our understanding of the method of weaving adopted by the Egyptians from the XIIth to the XIXth Dynasties, or about B.C. 2000 to 1200. To go into details, and taking Mr. N. de G. Davies’ illustration as our...

The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for...