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John Updike’s sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading “General Considerations,” books, poker, cars,... read more
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- Emerson: Add a description of this character.
- Henry James
- Hawthorne
- O'hara
- Thoreau
- Baum
- Byron
- Lewis
- White
- Adam
- Shapiro
- Goya
- Milosz
- Iris
- Fuchs
- Larkin
- Bruegel
- Knopf
- Abish
- Paul
- Maqroll
- Wolff
- Proust
- Mark Twain
- Ross
- Tom
- Thurber
- Steinberg
- Fitzgerald
- Perl
- Stowe
- Piranesi
- John
- Wilson
- Coverdale
- Chanel
- Rushdie
- Schorer
- Murdoch
- Carey
- Flashman
- Oskar
- Conradi
- Williams
- Buchanan
- Byatt
- Whitman
- Hughes
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- London
- America
- China
- Paris
- New England
- Europe
- Germany
- United States
- New Yorker
- Manhattan
- Hollywood
- Lusitania
- Pennsylvania
- Boston
- Italy
- Heaven
- Russia
- Spain
- France
- California
- India
- Philadelphia
- Massachusetts
- Islam
- Concord
- Chicago
- Africa
- Cambridge
- Charlotte
- Berlin
- Maine
- Turkey
- Israel
- Huntington
- Rome
- Florida
- Harvard
- Japan
- Ireland
- Australia
- Washington
- Istanbul
- Egypt
- Copenhagen
- San Francisco
- Tertuliano
- Salem
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Updike (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 814.54
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( U ) › Updike, John
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays
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