# Humboldt's Gift

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- Book: [Humboldt's Gift](https://www.bookquiver.com/saul-bellow/humboldts-gift) ([Humboldt's Gift.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/saul-bellow/humboldts-gift.md))
- Authors: [Saul Bellow](https://www.bookquiver.com/saul-bellow)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4138-928-8
- Published: 2013-04-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

For 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.