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The sirens of titan : an original novel / by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Vonnegut, K.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vonnegut, Kurt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhode Island--Fiction.
- Rhode Island.
- Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.
- Interplanetary voyages.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Brown (?), Barney (autograph) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dell Publishing Company, 1959.
- Summary:
- The richest, most depraved man in America blasts off in his private spaceship with a beautiful woman. Malachi Constant gives up a life of unequaled indulgence to pursue the irresistible Sirens of Titan.
- Contents:
- Between timid and Timbuktu
- Cheers in the wirehouse
- United Hotcake preferred
- Tent rentals
- Letter from an unknown hero
- A Deserter in time of war
- Victory
- In a Hollywood night club
- A Puzzle solved
- An Age of miracles
- We hate Malachi Constant because ...
- The Gentleman from Tralfamadore
- Epilogue : Reunion with Stony.
- Notes:
- "A Dell first edition."
- Cover painting by Richard Powers.
- First Printing -- October 1959.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Pieratt, A. Vonnegut, AB1
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 47362
- OCLC:
- 2342206
- Publisher Number:
- B138 Dell Books
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