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John Updike
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
by Pomegranate Communications (Hardcover)

Edward Gorey's off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updike's wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug. 32 pages, smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.

Paul Theroux, Ursula K. Leguin, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Andre Dubus, ...
Playboy Best of Fiction, v5 (Best of Playboy Fiction)
by Playboy Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 1997-07-01)

Paul Theroux: Dog Days (30 min)It was a time of excessive heat, unwholesome influences – and an overpowering lust for the Chinese servant girl.Theroux is a novelist, short story and travel writer. His more than two dozen books include Riding the Iron Rooster and Mosquito Coast.DOG DAYS, by Paul Theroux, originally appeared in Playboy Magazine (November, 1971) ©1971 Playboy.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Fortitude (30 min)She was a lovely old lady – at least what was left of her – and she had the best set of sweetbreads that money could buy.Vonnegut is the bestselling author of many works, including Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions and, most recently, Hocus Pocus.FORTITUDE, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., originally appeared in Playboy Magazine (September, 1968) ©1968 Playboy.Ursula K. Le Guin: Unlocking the Air (28 min)This is history. Soldiers stand in a row before the palace, their muskets ready. Stefana is ready too.Le Guin is best known for her fantasy and ...

Henry David Thoreau
Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
by Princeton University Press (Paperback)

Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

John Updike
The Witches of Eastwick
by Ballantine Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 1996-08-27)

In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches Alexandra Spoffard, sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream.Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, our three wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose hot tub was the scene of some rather bewitching delights.To tell you any more, dear reader, would be to spoil the marvelous joy of reading this hexy, sexy novel by the incomparable John Updike.

Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-02-25)

Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories
by Schocken (Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-11-14)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series (TM))
by Houghton Mifflin (Paperback)

John Updike
Rabbit, Run
by Fawcett (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1983-10-12)

"Brilliant and poignant...By his compassion, clarity of insight and crystal-bright prose, he makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own."THE WASHINGTON POSTHarry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....

John Updike
Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)
by Everyman's Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1995-10-17)

Four works in one volume

John Updike
Age of Innocence (Ivy Classics)
by Ivy Books (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1996-01-14)

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