Author: Rita Stefanutti
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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John Updike's "The Poorhouse Fair" as a Celebration of Inertia
Author: Rita Stefanutti
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Pages : 106
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Poorhouse Fair
Author: John Updike
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0394410505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Poorhouse Fair, John Updike’s first novel, was written in 1957 and published in January of 1959. For this, its sixth printing, the author has appended an introduction discussing the book’s inspiration, its aesthetic sources and models in classics of science fiction, and the way in which its future (projected to be about 1977) compares with the present. The Poorhouse Fair was hailed at the time of its publication as “a rare and beautiful achievement” and “a work of intellectual imagination and great charity.” Though its future has degenerated into our present, and Updike’s later work is better known, such critics as Henry Bech have hailed this little novel as, still, “surely his masterpiece.”
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0394410505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Poorhouse Fair, John Updike’s first novel, was written in 1957 and published in January of 1959. For this, its sixth printing, the author has appended an introduction discussing the book’s inspiration, its aesthetic sources and models in classics of science fiction, and the way in which its future (projected to be about 1977) compares with the present. The Poorhouse Fair was hailed at the time of its publication as “a rare and beautiful achievement” and “a work of intellectual imagination and great charity.” Though its future has degenerated into our present, and Updike’s later work is better known, such critics as Henry Bech have hailed this little novel as, still, “surely his masterpiece.”
A Study of The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
Author: Taichi Ogura
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Pages : 104
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This is an Excerpt from The Poorhouse Fair
Author: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
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Languages : en
Pages : 67
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Pages : 67
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An Excerpt from The Poorhouse Fair ...
Author: John Updike
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Languages : en
Pages : 67
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Pages : 67
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The Poorhouse Fair, and Rabbit, Run
Author: John Updike
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Languages : en
Pages : 435
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Pages : 435
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The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit Run
Author: John Updike
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Amongst Women
Author: John McGahern
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140092552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting—with his family, his friends, and even himself—in this haunting testimony to the enduring qualities of the human spirit.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140092552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting—with his family, his friends, and even himself—in this haunting testimony to the enduring qualities of the human spirit.
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike
History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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