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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Deadly Sins	A. S. Byatt,William Trevor,Mary Gordon,Gore Vidal,John Updike,Howard, Richard,Joyce Carol Oates,Thomas Pynchon	This is a collection of short literary essays, one to each of the seven sins, plus an extra item in "despair", by as many prominent literary figures, of whom Byatt is one. Others include Gore Vidal a…	OL14911100W
Men and Women	Bret Harte,Katherine Anne Porter,Stephen Crane,John Updike,Joyce Carol Oates,Kate Chopin,Alice Munro	Contains: Bret Harte The Idyl of Red Gulch, Stephen Crane The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky , Kate Chopin [The Story of an Hour][1], Katherine Anne Porter Rope , Joyce Carol Oates Customs, Alice …	OL14943669W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
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
Great Short Stories of the World	Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg	The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak …	OL16048288W
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]	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
Las brujas de Eastwick	John Updike	A finales de los an os sesenta, ni siquiera la provinciana Eastwick, una pequen a poblacio n de Rhode Island, permanecia ajena a los cambios que erosionaban los cimientos de las costumbres y la moral…	OL17743270W
Gertrude and Claudius	John Updike	Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's Hamlet, this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards adultery and treache…	OL18164818W
My father's tears and other stories	John Updike	A posthumous collection of short stories in which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age.	OL20974586W
Terrorist	John Updike	Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.	OL22450266W
Terrorista	John Updike	Ahmad, nacido en la ciudad industrial de New Prospect, en Nueva York, se convertió a islam a los once años, y siguiendo las enseñanzas de su rigorista imán, el sheij Rachid, lo asumió como escudo fre…	OL24176770W
La parfaite épouse	John Updike	Ce sont ses "impressions et souvenirs " des années Ford (1974-1977) que nous livre ici Alfred Clayton, modeste professeur d'histoire dans un collège du New Hampshire. L'Amérique connaissait alors l'a…	OL24277328W
The Centaur	John Updike	This story retells the Greek myth of the centaur, Chiron, who sacrifices his immortality for Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes Olinger High School; Chiron teaches general science; and, Pr…	OL27052561W
Modern Short Stories	Frank O'Connor,Oscar Wilde,Bernard Malamud,John Updike,Roald Dahl,Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan,Saki,Katherine Mansfield	The open window / Saki (H H Munro) Under the Banyan tree / R K Narayan A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield First confession / Frank O'Connor The first seven years / Bernard Malamud The nightenga…	OL2923324W
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Katherine Anne Porter,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Willa Cather,Bernard Malamud,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,J. Cochrane,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,James Cochrane,Jack London,Ring Lardner,Cochrane, James.	The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/O…	OL4005989W
Assorted Prose of Updike	John Updike	Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing.	OL463593W
My father's tears and other stories	John Updike	Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, "My Father's Tears" finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New …	OL463686W
Buchanan dying	John Updike	[1], ix, 262 p. : 21 cm	OL463779W
Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects	John Updike	Poems and photographs present common objects for each letter of the alphabet.	OL463783W