The Adventures of Augie March

Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow’s greatest novel

Winner of the 1954 National Book Award

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

“The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further.” —Martin Amis

A Penguin Classic

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero, is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A “born recruit,” Augie makes himself available for a series of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as unworthy. His own oddity is reflected in the companions he encounters—plungers, schemers, risk-takers, and “hole-and corner” operators like the would-be tycoon Einhorn or the would-be siren… Keep Reading