Slaughterhouse-Five

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of ...

  • Slaughterhouse-Five
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: Or The Children's Crusade
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    Slaughterhouse-Five: Or The Children's Crusade

  • Slaughterhouse-Five
    By Ryan North

    The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great anti-war books.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    This is merely one example of Vonnegut's unmatched moral clarity. He, more than any other writer I can think of, could cut through cant and sophistry and dissembling to expose our collective self-deceptions for what they are.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five
    By Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North

    With Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book ...

  • Slaughterhouse-five: Reforming the Novel and the World
    By Jerome Klinkowitz

    Describes the background of Slaughterhouse-Five, discusses its themes, and looks at its critical reception

  • Slaughterhouse-five: Or, The Children's Crusade, a Duty-dance with Death
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    War stories are impossible to write. Nevertheless, Vonnegut decided to begin his war story with Billy Pilgrim, a conqueror of the American dream. However, Billy's success isn't limited to business...

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five
    By Kurt Vonnegut

    From the World War II firebombing of Dresden to the distant planet called Tralfamadore, the reader follows Billy Pilgrim in his attempt to understand the natures of time and existence.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: BookCaps Study Guide
    By BookCaps Study Guides Staff

    The perfect companion to Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.