Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: farm
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2009-12-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1412811902
ISBN-13: 9781412811903

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell’s fable of a workers’ revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It’s OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell’s intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in col

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: day, night
Number of Pages: 582
Published: 2010-01-11
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1412811600
ISBN-13: 9781412811606

Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: travels
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1412807417
ISBN-13: 9781412807418

A novel which follows a man who embarks on a journey around the world with his elderly yet adventurous aunt, visiting locations such as Paris and Paraguay, mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA Agents. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA.

Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: blood, cold
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2006-10-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1560005378
ISBN-13: 9781560005377

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were viciously murdered by blasts from a shotgun held only inches from their faces. There were almost no clues and no apparent motive for the crime. Five years later, two men were hanged for the crime on a gallows in the Kansas State Penitentiary.

Author: Saul Bellow
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: jerusalem
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2010-01-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1412811848
ISBN-13: 9781412811842

When he visited Israel in 1975, Saul Bellow kept an account of his experiences and impressions. It grew into an impassioned and thoughtful book. As he wryly notes, "If you want everyone to love you, don’t discuss Israeli politics." But discuss them is very much what he does. Through quick sketches and vignettes, Bellow evokes places, ideas, and people, reaching a sharp picture of contemporary Israel. The reader is offered a wonderful panorama of an ancient and modern world city. Like every other visitor to Israel, Bellow tumbles into "a gale of conversation." He loves it and he mak

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: man, confidence
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412813247
ISBN-13: 9781412813242

As passengers aboard the steamboat Fidele prepare for their trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, they read a placard offering a reward for the capture of an imposter from the East a confidence man. During the trip, the imposter assumes many disguises as he goes about the boat cheating and duping passengers out of their money. In confrontations between the confidence man and his victims, Melville explores the hypocrisy and deceit seen to be normal in a commercial society. The Confidence-Man was Herman Melville’s last major novel before his interests changed from being a professional

Author: Edwin Newman
Publisher: Transaction Large Print
Keywords: speaking, strictly
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412813271
ISBN-13: 9781412813273

Admiring colleagues have called Edwin Newman an antipollutant, sensibly sardonic, a rare bird, a genial intellect, a man nobody is going to fool anywhere, anytime, anyway. Here, in his first book, these qualities are joined. Newman focuses on the sorry state of the English language as a reflection of the sorry state of the society. He skewers stereotypes, clichés, errors, and jargon used by weather forecasters, presidents, vice-presidents, sportscasters, diplomats, senators, pollsters, convention nominators, corporation executives, newsmen, advertisers, Watergate defendants, social sci