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Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
Category: Art
In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) in which “the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a d ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pas ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pa ...Show more
Couples by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England.
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Category: Fiction
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, ...Show more
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
Category: Non-Fiction
"Higher Gossip" presents John Updike's last collection of essays, poems and short stories. 'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison, John le Car ...Show more
John Updike: The Collected Stories by John Updike
Category: Accessories
From his first collection, "The Same Door," released in 1959, to his last, "My Father's Tears," published fifty years later, John Updike was America's reigning master of the short story, "our second Hawthorne," as Philip Roth described him. His evocations of small-town Pennsylvania life, and of his own ...Show more
Marry Me by John Updike
Category: Fiction
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard ...As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes ...Show more
Month Of Sundays A by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.