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Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels (4-volume boxed set)

All 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector’s boxed set. More

Edited by Sidney Offit

“This is likely the most attractive edition of Vonnegut you’ll ever own.”—Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine

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Overview

News Kurt Vonnegut, Armistice Day, and Veterans Day
November 7, 2023

Video Kurt Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide
May 4, 2022

The Moviegoer Slaughterhouse-Five: Unstuck in time, but alive and affecting on screen
June 14, 2017

The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation and remain among the most enduringly popular and influential works of the last century. Now, for the first time, they are available in a single collector’s edition, featuring authoritative annotated texts. This boxed set includes four Library of America volumes:

Novels & Stories 1950–1962
Player Piano | The Sirens of Titan | Mother Night | six stories

Novels & Stories 1963–1973
Cat’s Cradle | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Slaughterhouse-Five | Breakfast of Champions | three stories

Novels 1976–1985
Slapstick | Jailbird | Deadeye Dick | Galápagos

Novels 1987–1997
Bluebeard | Hocus Pocus | Timequake

Each Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950–1962 is kept in print by a gift from Matthew McLennan to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in honor of his daughter Emilia McLennan.
News & Views

News Kurt Vonnegut, Armistice Day, and Veterans Day
November 7, 2023

Video Kurt Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide
May 4, 2022

The Moviegoer Slaughterhouse-Five: Unstuck in time, but alive and affecting on screen
June 14, 2017

Influences Dismiss Kurt Vonnegut’s “modest, winking profundity” at your own peril, says Ron Currie, Jr.
August 17, 2016
Table of Contents

NOVELS & STORIES 1950–1962
Player Piano
The Sirens of Titan
Mother Night
Stories
Report on the Barnhouse Effect
EPICAC
Unready to Wear
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Harrison Bergeron
2BR02B
Appendix
Science Fiction
Introduction to “Bagombo Snuff Box,” the uncollected short fiction of Kurt Vonnegut

NOVELS & STORIES 1963–1973
Cat’s Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Slaughterhouse-Five
Breakfast of Champions
Stories
Welcome to the Monkey House
Fortitude
The Big Space Fuck
Appendix A
Address to the American Physical Society, New York City, February 5, 1969
Appendix B
Letter from PFC Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to his family, May 29, 1945
Wailing Shall Be in All Streets
A “Special Message” to readers of the Franklin Library’s limited edition of Slaughterhouse-Five
Preface to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five

NOVELS 1976–1985
Slapstick
Jailbird
Deadeye Dick
Galápagos
Appendix
A “Special Message” to readers of the Franklin Library’s signed first edition of Slapstick
Address to the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, October 5, 1988
A “Special Message” to readers of the Franklin Library’s signed first edition of Jailbird
Four excerpts from “Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of 1980s”
Lecture at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, May 23, 1982
A “Special Message” to readers of the Franklin Library’s signed first edition of Galápagos

NOVELS 1987–1997
Bluebeard
Hocus Pocus
Timequake
Appendix
A “Special Message” to readers of the Franklin Library’s signed first edition of Bluebeard
Four essays on artists
A “Special Message” to readers of the Franklin Library’s signed first edition of Hocus Pocus
The Last Tasmanian
Talk prepared for delivery at Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, April 27, 2007

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