Complete Works

Name: Complete Works
Author: Nathanael West

About the author

Nathanael West was a dark satirist of the Hollywood dream factory and Depression-era despair, killed in a car accident at thirty-seven. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust are savage, compressed masterworks.

More by Nathanael West

Miss LonelyheartsNovella of newspaper advice columnist's psychological collapse amid urban despair
The Day of the LocustSatiric novel depicting ruthless aspiration and violence in 1930s Hollywood
A Cool MillionPicaresque satire of American individualism and social climbing in Depression era
The Dream Life of Balso SnellSurrealist novella of intellectual journey through grotesque mythological underworld