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John Updike Bibliography
The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for his prolific output over a 50-year period. His bibliography includes some 23 novels, 18 short story collections, 12 collections of poetry, 4 children's books, and 12 collections of non-fiction. Chronological listing Novels are highlighted in bold. Library of America editions After publishing the essay "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" as a standalone special edition book in 2010, and publishing two volumes of short stories in 2013 (available also as a boxed set), Library of America began a multi-volume edition of Updike's novels in 2018, all under the editorship of Christopher Carduff. See also *Alfred A. Knopf *Bibliography of Philip Roth *The New Yorker References Further reading *Broomfield, Michael and de Bellis, Jack, ''John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007'', Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in ''The New Yorker'' starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for ''The New York Review of Books''. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels ''Rabbit, Run''; ''Rabbit Redux''; ''Rabbit Is Rich''; ''Rabbit at Rest''; and the novella ''Rabbit Remembered''), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Rabbit Angstrom, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both ''Rabbit Is Rich'' (1981) and ''Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Ring (1964 Film)
The Ring may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Ring'' (franchise), a Japanese horror media franchise Literature * ''The Ring'', a 1967 novel by Richard Chopping * ''The Ring'', a 1988 book by Daniel Keys Moran * ''The Ring'', a 1980 novel by Danielle Steel, which formed the basis for the 1996 film * ''The Ring'', a 1964 children's book by John Updike * ''The Ring'' (magazine), a boxing periodical * "The Ring" (poem), by Heinrich Wittenwiler * '' The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century'', 1993 book Film * ''The Ring'' (1927 film), by Alfred Hitchcock * ''The Ring'' (1952 film), by Kurt Neumann * ''The Ring'' (1985 film), a Romanian film * ''The Rings'', a 1985 Iranian horror mystery film * ''The Ring'' (1996 film), or ''Danielle Steel's The Ring'', a TV film * ''Ring'' (film), or ''The Ring'', a 1998 Japanese horror film ** ''The Ring'' (2002 film), a remake * ''The Ring'' (2007 film), a Canadian drama film * ''The Ring'' (2017 film), working title of ''Jab Harry Met Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rabbit Redux
''Rabbit Redux'' is a 1971 novel by John Updike. It is the second book in his "Rabbit" series, beginning with ''Rabbit, Run'' and followed by '' Rabbit Is Rich'', ''Rabbit At Rest'', published from 1960 to 1990, and the related 2001 novella, ''Rabbit Remembered''. Plot summary ''Rabbit Redux'' finds former high-school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom working a dead-end job as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant. Thirty-six, he feels that he is quickly approaching middle age and irrelevance, a fear he sees reflected in the economic decline of his hometown, Brewer, Pennsylvania. When his wife leaves him for an eccentric Greek man named Charlie Stavros, Harry and his thirteen-year-old son Nelson are at a loss. Seeking to fill the void left by Janice, Harry starts a commune, composed of himself; Nelson; Skeeter, a cynical, drug-dealing African-American Vietnam War veteran with messianic delusions; and Jill, a wealthy, white, runaway teenager from Connecticut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Complete Henry Bech
Henry Bech is a fictional character created by American author John Updike. Bech first appeared in assorted short stories, stories which were later compiled in the books ''Bech: A Book'' (1970), ''Bech Is Back'' (1982), and ''Bech at Bay'' (1998). These books were all later collected in ''The Complete Henry Bech'' (2001),"John Updike: 1932-2009," ''San Francisco Chronicle'' onlineLink/ref> which also included the short story ''His Oeuvre'' (2000). Updike's Bech is considered an antihero, and Updike's alter-ego. While Updike generally concerns himself with WASP culture, is married, and is prolific, Bech is apathetically Jewish, a bachelor (later a husband and stepfather for a time, and finally a father in old age), and unprolific. In the introduction to his first collection, the eponymous author speculates he is modeled in part after many other famous writers, including Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, J.D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger ( ; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
A Book
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bottom's Dream (Updike)
''Bottom's Dream'' ( or ''ZETTEL'S TRAUM'' as the author wrote the title) is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt. Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger were translating the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. The novel was inspired by James Joyce's novel ''Finnegans Wake'', particularly Schmidt's use of columns (his "SpaltenTechnik"), which Schmidt claimed was borrowed from the ''Wake''. The story itself is based on the questions of translating Edgar Allan Poe, following a couple who visits the home of a Poe translator to discuss his work. It is written in an idiosyncratic style, one in which Schmidt attempts to apply a Freudian understanding of language to the text by using various typographic features which alter the usual flow of text. The gargantuan novel was published in folio (printing), folio format with 1,334 pages. The story is told mostly in three shifting columns, presenting the text in the form of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Midpoint And Other Poems
In geometry, the midpoint is the middle point (geometry), point of a line segment. It is Distance, equidistant from both endpoints, and it is the centroid both of the segment and of the endpoints. It Bisection, bisects the segment. Formula The midpoint of a segment in ''n''-dimensional space whose endpoints are A = (a_1, a_2, \dots , a_n) and B = (b_1, b_2, \dots , b_n) is given by :\frac. That is, the ''i''th coordinate of the midpoint (''i'' = 1, 2, ..., ''n'') is :\frac 2. Construction Given two points of interest, finding the midpoint of the line segment they determine can be accomplished by a compass and straightedge construction. The midpoint of a line segment, embedded in a Plane (geometry), plane, can be located by first constructing a Lens (geometry), lens using circular arcs of equal (and large enough) radius, radii centered at the two endpoints, then connecting the cusp (singularity), cusps of the lens (the two points where the arcs intersect). The point where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Three Texts From Early Ipswich
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Couples (novel)
''Couples'' is a 1968 novel by American author John Updike. Overview The novel depicts the lives of a promiscuous circle of ten couples in the small Massachusetts town of Tarbox. (When he composed the book, the author was living in Ipswich, Massachusetts.) Much of the plot of ''Couples'' (which opens on the evening of March 24, 1962, and integrates historical events like the loss of the USS Thresher (SSN-593), USS ''Thresher'' on April 10, 1963, the Profumo affair, and the Kennedy assassination in November 1963) concerns the efforts of its characters to balance the pressures of Protestant sexual mores against increasingly flexible American attitudes toward sex in the 1960s. The book suggests that this relaxation may have been driven by the development of birth control and the opportunity to enjoy what one character refers to as "the post-pill paradise". The novel is rich in period detail. (In 2009, ''USA Today'' called it a "time capsule" of the era.) The lyrical and explicit d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Music School (short Stories)
''The Music School: Short Stories'' is a collection of 20 works of short fiction by John Updike, first appearing individually in ''The New Yorker''. The stories were collected in this volume by Alfred A. Knopf in 1966. Stories The stories in the collection are listed chronological order with respect to their appearance in The New Yorker “In Football Season” (November 10, 1962) “The Indian” (August 17, 1963) “ Giving Blood” (April 6, 1963) “A Madman” (December 22, 1962) “Leaves” (November 14, 1964) “The Stare” (April 3, 1965) "Avec La Bebe-Sitter" (January 1, 1966) "Twin Beds in Rome" (February 8, 1964) "Four Sides of One Story" (October 9, 1965) “The Morning” (July 18, 1964) "At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie" (January 11, 1964) "The Christian Roommates" (April 4, 1964) "My Lover Has Dirty Fingernails" (July 17, 1965) "Harv is Plowing Now" (April 23, 1966) “The Music School” (December 12, 1964) “The Rescue” (May 9, 1964) “The Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
A Child's Calendar
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Telephone Poles And Other Poems
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. The term is derived from and (, ''voice''), together meaning ''distant voice''. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice at a second device. This instrument was further developed by many others, and became rapidly indispensable in business, government, and in households. The essential elements of a telephone are a microphone (''transmitter'') to speak into and an earphone (''receiver'') which reproduces the voice at a distant locati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
