Author: John Updike

‘In the vast literature of love, The Seducer’s Diary is an intricate curiosity–a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast, ‘ …

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition–int …

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relation …

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Containing all the ambience of The Great Gatsby, The Rich Boy is a perfect collection of Fitzgerald stories evoking the trappings and illusions of 1920s high society. Undisputed king of Jazz Age writ …

«Es ist leicht, Menschen in der Erinnerung zu lieben», schreibt John Updike, und genauso leicht, «die Toten falsch zu zitieren». Darum will er sie so zärtlich, aber auch so genau wie möglich beschrei …

Tristão, ein schwarzer Junge aus den Slums, und die weiße Diplomatentochter Isabel verlieben sich am Strand von Copacabana. Auf der Flucht vor ihren entsetzten Familien stürzen sie sich in immer exot …

Ein amerikanischer College-Dozent arbeitet an einem Artikel über die Präsidentschaft Gerald Fords (1974-1977). Tatsächlich erinnert er sich nur an seine eigenen komplizierten Frauengeschichten aus di …

Owen Mackenzie, Computeringenieur der ersten Generation, hat sein ganzes Leben in kleinen Orten verbracht. Seit er mit einem Partner eine Software-Firma gegründet und rechtzeitig an Apple verkauft ha …

Harry Angstrom ist tot, aber seine Lebensenergie ist noch nicht erschöpft. Seine uneheliche Tochter Annabelle steht eines Tages bei seiner Witwe vor der Tür.: «Ich glaube, Sie waren mit meinem Vater …

«John Updikes Künstlerroman ist ein Generationenbuch und zugleich ein Buch über Amerika. Eindringlicher und unterhaltender ist das kaum möglich.» (Literaturen) Hope, 78, die bekannte Malerin und Witw …

Wie wird ein Terrorist zum Terroristen? Der achtzehnjährige Ahmed wächst bei seiner irischen Mutter in New Jersey auf. Sein Vater, ein Araber, hat die Familie früh verlassen. Aber die Trennung der El …

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"…This read-along is a richly sensory experience…. sound effects of chirping birds, tromping feet, lowing cows, whirring insects, exploding fireworks, pounding surf, buzzing bees, barking do …

Tíz év telt el a Nyúlcipő óta, John Updike angolul 1971-ben megjelent regényében folytatja Harry „Nyúl” Angstrom történetét. A korábbi sportolóból pocakos, harminchat éves konzervatív lett, miközben …

„Izgalmas, provokatív. Arra emlékeztet, hogy a történelem alól senki se szabadíthatja fel az embert.” — The New York Times A helyszín egy lerobbant gyárváros New Jerseyben. A tizennyolc éves Ahmad an …

Joey Robinson harmincöt éves. New Yorkban él második feleségével és tizenegy éves mostohafiával. Hazalátogat idősödő édesanyjához Pennsylvaniába, a farmra, ahol felnőtt. A háromnapos látogatás vallom …

A vége felé közeledik a vietnami háború, amikor Rhode Island államban, egy eldugott tengerparti városkában Alexandra, Jane és Sukie, a három igéző, elvált nő hirtelen azt tapasztalja: boszorkányos ké …

This collection of John Updike s non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, Everything Considered , in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; …

Updike’s seventh novel 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. …

An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the eve …

In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son g …

When a history professor – Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike’s fifteenth novel – is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history …

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, Joe …

The air of Eastwick breeds witches – women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into …

The first book in John Updike’s award-winning ‘Rabbit’ series, with an afterword by the author It’s 1959 and Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twent …

It’s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren’t as simple as they used to …

It’s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He’s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That’s OK, though – it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It’s all in pl …

It’s 1989, and Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him c …

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 …

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 ho …

In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America’s most burning issues the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces …

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a rin …

In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with e …

On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady p …

A grand collection of John Updike’s inimitable early stories.Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike’s auto …

Taking its title from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES traces one family’s profound journey through four generations–and across the spiritual landscape of twe …

‘Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.’As an earnest golfer for over forty years, John Updike …

Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social cha …

Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in th …

Middle-aged, brilliant and bored, Roger Lambert is a professor of Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced that religious belief can only justified by recourse to pure faith, he is dism …

Owen Mackenzie’s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series o …

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 …

Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel ‘RABBIT REMEMBERED’ is a major work in its own right – a riveting return to Updike’s most celebrated fic …

A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In ‘Fiftieth’ old friends reconnect at a class reunion …

Endpoint opens with a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of Updike’s recent birthdays and culminate in his confrontation with his final illness. They look back on the boy t …

In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth – S. – has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ah …

Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Up …

‘There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life – impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet …

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth cenury and author of modern classic novel Rabbit, Run Updike had a …

Higher Gossip is a last collection of essays, poems, short stories and criticism from the late John Updike. ‘Gossip of a higher sort’ was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the rev …

More Matter is a collection of John Updike’s best-loved critical essays and reflections.From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary a …

Basic Bech combines two classic titles — Bech: A Book and Bech is Back — from one of John Updike’s most beloved characters.Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, c …

John Updike’s fictional antihero, Henry Bech, could not be more different from his creator. A self-confessed composite of Norman Mailer and J.D. Salinger, he cannot help but flatter himself. In this …

The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.   In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabo …

Pulitzer-díjas regény Updike Nyúlcipő című regényének hőse, Harry Angstrom életébe – tíz esztendővel a Nyúlketrec című folytatás eseményei után – beköszönt a ki …

Nemzeti Könyvdíj, 1964 A Kentaur egy görög, mitikus történet újramondása modern környezetben. Updike a Nyúl-sorozat első könyvét követően és A Farmot megelőzően írta, az USA-ban eredetileg 1963-ban j …

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Nyúl-sorozat 4. John Updike Harry „Nyúl” Angstromről szóló negyedik regénye 1989-ben játszódik. Angstrom szerzett egy lakást Floridában, megszületett második unokája, agyondolgozta magát, szíve rende …

Nyúl-sorozat 5. A Nyúl-sorozat ötödik darabja 1999. őszén-telén, az új évezred árnyékában zajlik. Harry „Nyúl” Angstrom már tíz éve halott. A Nyúlfarkban a regényfolyam számtalan szála fonódik egybe, …

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«Ein boshaftes und dennoch liebevolles Porträt einer trügerischen Kleinstadtidylle.» Der Spiegel In dem kleinen Ort Eastwick in Rhode Island leben drei Frauen, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnte …

Estamos en 1962. La vida discurre con aparente tranquilidad en Greenwood, un suburbio de Connecticut que es la viva imagen del sueño americano: familias unidas, prósperas y felices, paseos por la p …