Herzog, a novel by the American writer and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, first published in 1964. The main character Moses Herzog, a professor of romanticism, is going through a crisis after his divorce from his second wife, and he is also facing a setback
The novel became a classic almost immediately after its publication in 1964. Moses E. Herzog is a middle-aged intellectual who is recovering from the breakup of his second marriage and is on the verge of suicide, and through the novel we follow him during his "inner journey".
The first part of the Ravanel Family series. Brothers West and Devon are the last of the Ravenel line. Due to the unfortunate death of their cousin Theo, Devon inherits property in Hampshire, land in Norfolk, a house in London...
The action of this adventure novel takes place on the American Mississippi River and its banks at a time when steamboats were sailing on that vast river course, during the childhood of the author himself.