- Fiction, Queens, Kings and rulers, Remarried people
John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins.
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Grave, classical in form, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- John Updike
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 212
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Franklin Library, Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780140290905
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades,
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