Erich Segal Books In Order

Love Story Books In Publication Order

  1. Love Story (1970)
  2. Oliver’s Story (1977)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Man, Woman, and Child (1970)
  2. Fairy Tale (1973)
  3. The Class (1985)
  4. Doctors (1988)
  5. Acts of Faith (1992)
  6. Prizes (1995)
  7. Only Love (1997)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Roman Laughter (1968)
  2. Greek Tragedy (1983)
  3. Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (1989)
  4. Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (1996)
  5. The Death of Comedy (2001)
  6. Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (2002)

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Erich Segal Books Overview

Love Story

Lose your heart to the novel that defined a generation then…
and now. Love StoryLove means never having to say you’re sorry…
He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything…
yet will end too soon. A love that will linger in your heart now and forever.

Oliver’s Story

Oliver Barrett IV found the love of his life in Jenny Cavilleri. And though the time they spent together was brief, it was enough to last a lifetime. Or so Oliver told himself. Living without her for two years now, he still believes he will never love again. Until the day he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman, and suddenly the future seems very different than Oliver thought it would be. The tale of one man’s journey out of the lonely darkness of heartbreak into the warm embrace of love, this moving and beautiful sequel to Love Story will capture your heart as only Erich Segal can.

Man, Woman, and Child

From Eric Segal comes an unforgettable story of love…
. the drama of a father and the son he never knew…
And a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all. Man, Woman And Child. Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage…
almost perfect. for what Sheila didn’t know was that Bob has once been unfaithful only once, ten years ago during a business trip to France. What Bob didn’t know was that his brief affair produced a son. Now a tragic accident and one fateful phone call will change Bob and Sheila’s life forever…

The Class

From world renowed author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are intertwined. Their explosive story begins in a time of innocence and spans a turbulent quarter century, culminating in their dramatic twenty five reunion at which they confront their classmates and the balance sheet of their own lives. Always at the center; amid the passion, laughter, and glory, stands Harvard the symbol of who they are and who they will be. They were a generation who made the rules then broke them whose glittering successes, heartfelt tragedies, and unbridled ambitons would stun the world. From the Paperback edition.

Doctors

Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School’s class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of Doctors what makes them tick, scheme, hurt…
and love. From the crucible of med school’s merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs and sometimes tragedies beyond, Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire. At the novel’s heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love until their friendship ripens into passion. Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. Doctors heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial…
and a miracle. From the Paperback edition.

Acts of Faith

They met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy : Abandoned at birth, he finds a home and a dazzling career within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul igniting passion. Daniel : The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. And destined to break his father’s heart. Deborah : She was raised to be docile and dutiful the perfect rabbi’s wife but love will lead her to rebellion. And into world’s the patriarch would never dare imagine. Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, and radiating the splendor of two holy cities, Rome and Jerusalem, here is Erich Segal’s most provocative and ambitious novel to date the unforgettable story of three extraordinary lives…
and one forbidden love.

Prizes

Erich Segal, bestselling author of Love Story and Doctors, now brings his extraordinary storytelling gifts to the elite arena of the world’s most remarkable physicians and scientists. In Prizes, Segal brings vividly to life three very different and memorable characters in a story brim*ming with love and loss, discoveries and betrayals, life and death. Adam Coopersmith. He is that rare combination: a brilliant physician who truly cares for his patients. But his marriage to Antonia, an ambitious lawyer, has lost its early passion. It’s not until Adam meets Anya Avilova, a Russian migr who has tried desperately to have a child, that he falls in love for the first time…
only to have his career nearly destroyed by scandal and his life endangered by something unforeseen and far more perilous…
. Sandy Raven. A researcher on the cutting edge, Sandy’s devotion is matched only by his genius. Yet at the moment of his greatest discovery, he will experience his most profound betrayal. Suddenly, the family life Sandy cherishes will hang in the balance. Will he choose to live a lie or abandon his dream to seek new, more worldly Prizes?…
Isabel da Costa. A child prodigy, Isabel owes all her success to her father, who pushed her to reach for the stars. Though she becomes a brilliant physicist, all the adulation in the world can’t give Isabel another childhood. In the end, she will be torn between the father who has given her everything and the young man who holds the key to her happiness until a shocking revelation explodes her world and threatens her very life…
. Adam. Sandy. Isabel. For each, the Nobel Prize casts its seductive promise over their work. Two will be selected for this highest honor; one of them will not live to receive it. But as they pursue the secrets of nature, they will also discover the secrets in their own hearts. Their stories make Prizes a gripping, emotionally charged experience, a novel that proves once again that Erich Segal is the unsurpassed master of laughter and tears, tragedy, and triumph.

Only Love

An unforgettable new novel by the bestselling author of Love Story. When a talented doctor is asked to help save the life of a rich man’s beautiful wife, he faces more than a medical challenge. For he and the woman have met before long ago as two idealistic young doctors heading to Africa to heal the sick…
and on their way to a passionate love affair.

Roman Laughter

‘Mr. Segal has performed the by no means trifling task of making Plautus’s achievement credible and understandable.’ Times Literary Supplement. ‘It is refreshing to find Plautus examined for what he undeniably was a theatrical phenomenon.’ Classical World. ‘We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.’ Phoenix. ‘Many readers will do as I have done: read Roman Laughter with enjoyment and profit.’ Classical Philology. ‘Of all the Greek and Roman playwrights,’ Erich Segal writes, ‘Titus Maccius Plautus is the least admired and the most imitated.’ In Roman Laughter, the first book length study of Plautus, Segal argues that this neglected writer, often denounced by scholars for such crimes as ‘barbarous clownery,’ merits our serious attention precisely because he was the most successful poet of the ancient world. He analyzes the reasons behind this success, placing the author in his social and historical context and observing that Plautus’s wildly comedic flouting of Roman law and custom had a cathartic effect upon a people bound by rule in every aspect of their lives. This expanded edition contains a new preface that reconsiders the work of Plautus in light of recent scholarship and also contains essays on the Amphitryon and the Captivi.

Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy

Greek tragedy, the fountainhead of all western drama, is widely read by students in a variety of disciplines. Segal here presents twenty nine of the finest modern essays on the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. All Greek has been translated, but the original footnotes have been retained. Contributors include Anne Burnett, E.R. Dodds, Bernard M.W. Knox, Hugh Lloyd Jones, Karl Reinhardt, Jacqueline de Romilly, Bruno Snell, Jean Pierre Vernant and Cedric Whitman.

Oxford Readings in Aristophanes

Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflect the spirit of Athens in the golden age and its unique freedom of speech. This anthology brings together all the most important contributions to the study of Aristophanes; it addresses a range of subjects from the classic question of Aristophanes’ relationship to contemporary politics to more modern issues such as performance context, the interaction between fifth century comedy and tragedy, and gender

The Death of Comedy

In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy’s glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd. An exploration of various landmarks in the history of a genre that flourished almost unchanged for two millennia, The Death of Comedy revisits the obscenities and raucous twists of Aristophanes, the neighborly pleasantries of Menander, the tomfoolery and farce of Plautus. Segal shows how the ribaldry of foiled adultery, a staple of Roman comedy, reappears in force on the stages of Restoration England. And he gives us a closer look at the schadenfreude delight in someone else’s misfortune that marks Machiavelli’s and Marlowe’s works. At every turn in Segal’s analysis from Shakespeare to Moli re to Shaw another facet of the comic art emerges, until finally, he argues, ‘the head conquers and the heart dies’: Letting the intellect take the lead, Cocteau, Ionesco, and Beckett smother comedy as we know it. The book is a tour de force, a sweeping panorama of the art and history of comedy, as insightful as it is delightful to read. 20010701

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