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John Updike: a Bibliography; the Other John Updike; John Updike's Novels; Updike's Version; Updike's Novels; Conversations with John Updike; Rabbit Tales; Writer and Persona; the Elements; Married Men and More
by John Updike
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About This Item
Hardcover. A must for any John Updike Collector, Sixteen Academic, Bibliographical and Reference books on John Updike and his works. Books included are: John Updike: A Bibliography 1967-1993 compiled by Jack De Bellis - Greenwood Press HC 2nd Printing Near FineThe Other John Updike: Poems/Short Stories/Prose/Play by Donald J Greiner - Ohio University Press 1981 First Edition. Fine in DJJohn Updike's Novels by Donald J Greiner - Ohio University Press 1986 3rd printing. Fine in DJUpdike's Version: Rewriting The Scarlet Letter by James A Schiff - University of Missouri Press 1992 First Edition. Fine in DJUpdike's Novels: Thorns Spell a Word by Jeff H Campbell - Midwestern state University 1987 First Edition. Fine in DJConversations with John Updike edited by James Plath - University Press of Mississippi 1994 First Edition. Fine in DJRabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels edited by Lawrence R Broer - University of Alabama Press 1998 First Edition. Fine in DWJohn Updike and the Three great secret things: Sex, Religion and Art by George Hunt - William B Eerdmans 1980 First Edition. Fine in DW New Essays on Rabbit Run edited by Stanley Trachtenberg - Cambridge University Press 1993 First Edition. Fine in DWSomething and Nothing: The Fiction of John Updike & John Fowles by John Neary - Southern Illinois 1992 First Edition. Fine in DWWriter and Persona: Character in Prose - McGraw-Hill 1970 First Edition. NF book in VG DWThe Elements of John Updike by Alice and Kenneth Hamilton. William B Eerdmans 1970 First Edition. VG+ book in VG+ clipped jacketJohn Updike by Robert Detweiler - Twayne 1972 First Edition. NF HC without JacketJohn Updike: a Bibliography by C Clark Taylor - The Kent State 1968 First Edition. Ex-Library HC, VGMarried Men and Magic Tricks: John Updike's Erotic Heroes by Elizabeth Tallent - Creative Arts Book Company 1982 Softcover. VG+ or betterJohn Updike: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by David Thornburn and Howard Eiland - A Spectrum Book 1979. Softcover about VG- .
Synopsis
The Library of America presents the first of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are 102 classic stories that chart Updike’s emergence as America’s foremost practitioner of the short story, “our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described him. Based on new archival research, each story is presented in its final definitive form and in order of composition, established here for the first time.
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- Title
- John Updike: a Bibliography; the Other John Updike; John Updike's Novels; Updike's Version; Updike's Novels; Conversations with John Updike; Rabbit Tales; Writer and Persona; the Elements; Married Men and More
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- John Updike
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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