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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Bluebeard, published in 1987, is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster. Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Cat's Cradle: Masterworks by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. ...Show more
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)
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Category: Psychology
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...Show more
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got him a job in the federal government. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy gave him a job in the Nixon Whit ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only g ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course ther ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
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