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Burn This Book Burn This Book Paul Auster,Ed Park,Nadine Gordimer,Russell Banks,Salman Rushdie,John Updike,Francine Prose,Toni Morrison,David Grossman,Pico Iyer,Orhan Pamuk Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see th… OL15191496W
The best American short stories of the century The best American short stories of the century Katrina Kenison,John Updike THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintess… OL16052370W
Great American Short Stories [34 stories] Great American Short Stories [34 stories] Bret Harte,Richard Connell,Heywood Broun,Ernest Hemingway,Marc Connelly,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,John Cheever,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Stephen Vincent Benét,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Eudora Welty,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Pearl S. Buck,Jack London,Shirley Ann Grau,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Kay Boyle,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Susan Glaspell,Damon Runyon,Readers Digest Editors Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombe… OL16481148W
Assorted Prose of Updike Assorted Prose of Updike John Updike Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing. OL463593W
The poorhouse fair The poorhouse fair John Updike "On the third Wednesday of every August the inhabitants of a mansion-turned-poorhouse in central New Jersey hold their annual fair; this novel describes a fair that occurs about twenty years from now… OL463832W
The centaur The centaur John Updike 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… OL463835W
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold James Hurst,John Masefield,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Ellen Harkins Wheat,Margaret Walker,Richard Connell,Sara Teasdale,Wisława Szymborska,Mark Twain,Όμηρος,Gary Soto,Anne McCaffrey,Marge Piercy,James Thurber,O. Henry,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Rudolfo A. Anaya,Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs,Isabel Allende,Toni Cade Bambara,Martin Luther King Jr.,James C. Rettie,Leslie Silko,Sally Ride,Simon J. Ortiz,William Wordsworth,Arthur C. Clarke,Langston Hughes,William Least Heat Moon,John Updike,Thor Heyerdahl,John G. Neihardt,Edgar Allan Poe,Chief Dan George,Guy de Maupassant,Alfred Lord Tennyson,James Joyce,Derek Walcott,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,James Weldon Johnson,Paule Marshall,Yoshiko Uchida,Gordon Parks,Edgar Lee Masters,Marchette Gaylord Chute,Gabriela Mistral,Tomás Rivera,Gabriel García Márquez,Bruce Chatwin,John McPhee,Robert Browning,Margaret Atwood,Walter De La Mere,Donald Justice,Saki,Ernest Lawrence Thayer,Morley Callaghan,Frank R. Stockton,Christina Rosetti,Theodore Roethke,Chiyojo,Sumner Braunstein,Sui Wai Anderson,Basho,Grant Moss Jr.,William Shakespeare,William Gibson High School level OL7948604W
The Situation of the Story The Situation of the Story Ellen Wilbur,Ernest Hemingway,Katherine Anne Porter,Mark Twain,Virginia Woolf,Антон Павлович Чехов,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,Charles Johnson,Henry James,William Faulkner,John Edgar Wideman,Gloria Naylor,Amy Tan,Raymond Carver,Willa Cather,Zora Neale Hurston,George P. Garrett,Toni Cade Bambara,Bernard Malamud,John Cheever,Truman Capote,William Goyen,Stephen Crane,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Diana Young,Doris Lessing,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Louise Erdrich,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,Joyce Carol Oates,Franz Kafka,Flannery O'Connor,Elizabeth Spencer,Lee K. Abbott,Ann Beattie,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin,Shirley Jackson,Anna Lee Walters,Tillie Olsen,Conrad Aiken,Alice Munro,Bharati Mukherjee,Estela Portillo Trambley,Allen Barnett,REGINALD McKNlGHT FLANNERY O'CONNOR, The Comforts of Home 3 ANN BEATTIE, It's Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22 MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37 EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62 WILLIAM GOY… OL8138361W