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8 best books like Updike (Adam Begley): Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Captive Mind, Young Eliot: A Biography, The Portable Chekhov, Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, The Centaur, Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
AuthorPlato
ISBN0872206335
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor)
‏‫‬‭Five dialogues, Plato‏‫‬‭; Introduction by A.D.Lindsay. ‏‫‬‭London‏‫‬‭: J.M.Dent & sons Ltd‏‫‬‭, 1947‏‫‬‭...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN0143039075
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...
The Captive Mind
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0679728562
The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by consumerism in Western society. The second...
Young Eliot: A Biography
AuthorRobert Crawford
ISBN0374279446
A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most important poets

On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a definitive biography of this poetic genius. Young Eliot traces the life of the twentieth century’s...
The Portable Chekhov
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0140150358
Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story.

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Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker
AuthorDavid Remnick
ISBN0375503560
New York City is not only The "New Yorker" magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage...
The Centaur
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0449912167
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER
 
The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus...
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita
AuthorRobert Roper
ISBN0802743633
The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined--as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life....
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