Odyssey Editions imprint: 36 books

by Saul Bellow
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

The most exuberant and funny of all Bellow’s novels, Henderson the Rain King remained the author’s personal favorite. Its outsized hero, Eugene Henderson, a mountain of a man, a millionaire, the father of many, remains adrift. Aggrieved, worn-out, all but defeated he longs to set things straight....
by Saul Bellow
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Seize the day. Be in the present. Grasp the hour, the moment, the instant. This is the dubious advice given by outlandish Dr. Tamkin—part psychologist, part stockbroker—to poor Tommy Wilhelm. Unemployed, at the whim of his ex-wife and two children, and hurt by his proud and callous father, Wilhelm...
by Saul Bellow
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of several articles on Chicago’s endemic corruption, and...

Light House: A Trifle

Or, Actual Modern Fiction

by William Monahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

A hilarious farce, in which a coastal New England hotel, the reader’s expectations, and possibly The Novel itself, are turned inside out by an outrageous cast of characters, a mutinous Author, and the onset of a disastrous storm.

A World Restored

Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22

by Henry Kissinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013

Few periods illustrate so well the dilemma posed by the appearance of a revolutionary power; and the problems of organizing a legitimate order, as the decade after the Napoleonic Wars. Revolutionary France had refused to accept the legitimacy of the existing European balance of power, which had operated...

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by Katherine Bucknell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

  At fifty, Alice Gregory discovers that she can’t really see anymore.  So she buys a pair of drugstore reading glasses, strength +1, and her suburban life looks magically more inviting.  Outside the circle of marriage and family, shrinking as her three sons grow up and leave home, fresh...
by Gini Alhadeff
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

This astonishing memoir is the story of a family who always felt slightly foreign in every country and developed a chameleon-like ability to adapt to their surroundings. Gini Alhadeff was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and grew up in Cairo, Khartoum, Florence, and Tokyo. With a vivid gift for narrative,...
by Katherine Bucknell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

What price perfection? David is an American investment banker living in London; Elizabeth, his wife, is a woman of peerless beauty and refinement. They have two children; their marriage seems perfect. Why does she want him to retire and move home to America? One summer evening, David, alone...
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