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 grow and change as he himself begins to...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

Ein alter Mann wacht auf: Owen Mackenzie, ein Computeringenieur der ersten Generation, der mit einem Partner eine kleine Software-Firma gegründet und rechtzeitig an Apple verkauft hat. Seither hat er keine Geldsorgen mehr. Der...

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 grow and change as he himself begins to...

In John Updike's second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early '70s. If one word could sum up the young...

"Ehepaare" von John Updike ist ein Roman, der sich mit den komplexen Beziehungen und dem sozialen Leben von verheirateten Paaren in einer fiktiven Vorstadt in Massachusetts in den 1960er Jahren auseinandersetzt. Im Mittelpunkt steht das...

What Martin Amis has described as Updike's 'cat's-cradle of vigorous adultery' is new to "Modern Classics". von Updike, John

To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updike's title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy...

"Der Zentaur" von John Updike ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von George Caldwell, einem Highschool-Lehrer in einer kleinen Stadt in Pennsylvania, und seinem Sohn Peter erzählt. Der Roman verwebt die alltäglichen Herausforderungen und...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

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