Humboldt's GiftFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around. |
Contents
Section 1 | 44 |
Section 2 | 64 |
Section 3 | 71 |
Section 4 | 89 |
Section 5 | 91 |
Section 6 | 107 |
Section 7 | 117 |
Section 8 | 136 |
Section 15 | 291 |
Section 16 | 308 |
Section 17 | 326 |
Section 18 | 338 |
Section 19 | 366 |
Section 20 | 377 |
Section 21 | 399 |
Section 22 | 402 |
Section 9 | 141 |
Section 10 | 168 |
Section 11 | 194 |
Section 12 | 218 |
Section 13 | 229 |
Section 14 | 237 |
Section 23 | 426 |
Section 24 | 434 |
Section 25 | 459 |
Section 26 | 471 |
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