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The Witches of Eastwick

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645887

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“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday

The Widows of Eastwick

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Rhode Island
ISBN : 9780345517517

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After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie -- now widowed but still witches -- return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license and liberation is now a "haven of wholesomeness" populated by hockey moms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their own absent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but flesh weaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspell of conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike is as his very best - a legendary mster of literary magic up to his old delightful tricks.

The Widows of Eastwick

John Updike
The Widows of Eastwick Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345506979

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More than three decades after the events described in The Witches of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—widowed, aging, and with their occult powers fading—return for the summer to the Rhode Island town where they once made piquant scandal and sometimes deadly mischief. But what was then a center of license and liberation is now a “haven of wholesomeness” populated by hockey moms and househusbands primly rebelling against their absent, reckless, self-involved parents. With spirits still free but energy waning, the three women reconstitute their coven to confront not only this youthful counterspell of propriety but also the enmity of those longtime townsfolk who, through their youthful witchery, they irreparably harmed. In this wise and wicked satire on the way we make peace with our pasts, John Updike proves himself a wizard on every page.

My Father's Tears

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307272027

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A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”

Terrorist

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Egyptian Americans
ISBN : 9780345498755

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Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.

The Widows of Eastwick

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141038032

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More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees � Alexandra, Jane and Sukie � have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. And then, one summer, they decide to go back to Eastwick. The old Rhode Island seaside town where they once indulged in sensuous mischief still holds enchantment for the three, but it also holds memories, and there are those who remember them and wish them ill . . .

A Month of Sundays

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645900

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An antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, in which a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. “Updike may be America’s finest novelist and [this] is quintessential Updike.”—The Washington Post At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past—his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his affair with his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his Biblical exegeses, and his smoldering desire for the directress of the retreat, the impregnable Ms. Prynne. A testament for our times.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

Harold Frederic
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Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015065437900

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This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age. In its realism, "The Damnation of Theron Ware" foreshadows Howells; in its conscious imagery it prefigures Norris, Crane, Henry James, and the "symbolic realism" of the twentieth century. Its author, Harold Frederic, internationally famous as London correspondent for the "New York Times," wrote the novel two years before his death.

The Art of Fiction

David Lodge
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Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction

Michial Farmer
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Author : Michial Farmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139429

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Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being.

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486843483

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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

"Witty, eerie, tender." — John Updike. In this early feminist classic, a middle-aged London spinster escapes her controlling family by moving to the country, becoming a witch, and securing her freedom by making a pact with Satan.

The Maples Stories

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307593344

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The Maples Stories by John Updike Pdf

Eighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, “Grandparenting,” which returns us to the Maples’s lives long after their wrenching divorce.

A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute
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Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409087304

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'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit and ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners and many end up owing their lives to her indomitable spirit. While on the march, the group run into some Australian prisoners, one of whom, Joe Harman, helps them steal some food, and is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a result. After the war, Jean tracks Joe down in Australia and together they begin to dream of surmounting the past and transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs... With an introduction by Eric Lomax, author of The Railway Man

Of the Farm

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141912516

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Of the Farm recounts Joey Robinson's visit to the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives alone. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy, the delicate balance of love and sex is threatened by a dangerous new awareness.

Gertrude and Claudius

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449006979

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Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike Pdf

Gertrude and Claudius are the “villains” of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband’s body is cold. But in this imaginative “prequel” to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince. “I hoped to keep the texture light,” Updike said of this novel, “to move from the mists of Scandinavian legend into the daylight atmosphere of the Globe. I sought to narrate the romance that preceded the tragedy.”