"The Witches of Eastwick The Witches of Eastwick is a 1984 novel by American writer John Updike. A sequel, ""The Widows of Eastwick"", was published in 2008. The story, set in the fictional Rhode Island town of Eastwick in the late 1960s, follows the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont, who acquired their powers after leaving or being left by their husbands (although Alexandra is a widow). Their coven is upset by the arrival of Darryl Van Horne, who buys a neglected mansion outside of town. The mysterious Darryl seduces each of the women, encouraging their creative powers"
"The Witches of Eastwick (musical) The Witches of Eastwick is a 2000 musical based on the novel of the same name by John Updike. It was adapted by John Dempsey (lyrics and book) and Dana P. Rowe (music), directed by Eric Schaeffer, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh. The story is based around three female protagonists, the 'Witches' Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont. Frustrated and bored by their mundane lives in the town of Eastwick, a shared longing and desire for ""all manner of man in one man"" comes to life in the form of a charismatic stranger, a"
"singing the praises of himself (""The Glory of Me""). The wedding begins but the Witches appear and, using a voodoo doll of Darryl they begin attacking him (""The Wedding""). Vowing revenge, Darryl is thrown back to Hell in a fireball and the church collapses. Michael and Jennifer are reunited (""Something"" Reprise) and the Witches realise the error of their ways (""Look At Me""). 2001 Olivier Awards: The Witches of Eastwick (musical) The Witches of Eastwick is a 2000 musical based on the novel of the same name by John Updike. It was adapted by John Dempsey (lyrics and book) and"
"Wasted"" (1990): Rabbit novels Bech books Buchanan books Eastwick books ""The Scarlet Letter"" Trilogy Other novels Books edited by Updike Short Story Collections Poetry Non-fiction, essays and criticism John Updike 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 three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), 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"
"of habit (favourite compartments, favourite seats); that the orange street lights on the way home from the station made red appear brown; and that, on Sundays (""the day for which Metroland was created""), the trains appeared to clatter into Eastwick more loudly than usual. ""Eastwick"", which was said to be about twenty minutes’ drive from Chesham, was probably an amalgam of Eastcote and Northwick (as in Northwick Park), although there is a parish of Eastwick in East Hertfordshire, to the north-west of Harlow. There is no connection with the town (in New England, USA) in John Updike’s novel, ""The Witches"
"were produced, but neither of these were picked up for full seasons. The first adaptation was produced for NBC in 1992, starring Julia Campbell as Jane Hollis, Catherine Mary Stewart as Sukie Ridgemont, Ally Walker as Alexandra Spofford, and Michael Siberry as Darryl Van Horne. The second unsold pilot was produced for Fox in 2002, starring Marcia Cross as Jane Spofford, Kelly Rutherford as Alexandra Medford, Lori Loughlin as Sukie Ridgemont, and Jason O'Mara as Darryl Van Horne. Eastwick (TV series) Eastwick is an American fantasy comedy-drama television series based on John Updike's novel ""The Witches of Eastwick"" which aired"
"Previewing 24 June 2000 and opening 18 July 2000 in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, ""The Witches of Eastwick"" was based upon the John Updike novel of the same name and also upon the motion picture directed by George Miller. The director who 'fixed' previous show, ""The Fix"" for its American premiere, Eric D. Schaeffer, was employed to head the new production. The original cast featured Ian McShane in the role of 'Darryl Van Horne' with Lucie Arnaz, Maria Friedman and Joanna Riding as the three witches, 'Alexandra', 'Sukie' and 'Jane'. The show was transferred to the Prince of Wales"
"was not an afterthought supplied too late for the English edition, for it is referred to in ""The Castaway"": ""in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself."" Why the ""Epilogue"" is missing is unknown. Since nothing objectionable was in it, most likely it was somehow lost by Bentley's printer when the ""Etymology"" and ""Extracts"" were moved. After the sheets had been sent, Melville changed the title. Probably late in September, Allan sent Bentley two pages of proof with a letter of which only a draft survives which informed him that Melville ""has"
"that even just the central plot point of Victor Stowell becoming Deemster ""seems so unlikely as to vitiate the story at its central point."" Coming ten years before his death, during which time only ""The Woman of Knockaloe"" was published, this novel is considered to ""effectively round off the Hall Caine canon."" The book has been out of print since Hall Caine's death, when his reputation declined steeply, leaving him and his novels effectively forgotten entirely today. As for previous Hall Caine novels, a play adaptation was planned. However, it never materialised for ""The Master of Man"". The film version"
"also popular through much of the 18th century; as late as 1782, Charles Dibdin had a success with his pantomime ""The Lancashire Witches, or The Distresses of Harlequin."" The Heywood/Brome and Shadwell versions were reprinted together in an 1853 volume titled ""The Poetry of Witchcraft."" Laird Barber produced a modern edition of the play in 1979, under its traditional title. When Gabriel Egan produced another modern edition in 2002, he employed the title ""The Witches of Lancashire,"" in the judgement that this reflected the play as performed in 1634. (The second title derives from a letter dated 16 August 1634"
"The Witches of Eastwick (film) The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American comedy-dark fantasy film based on John Updike's novel ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1984). Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches. Alexandra Medford (Cher), Jane Spofford (Susan Sarandon), and Sukie Ridgemont (Michelle Pfeiffer) are three dissatisfied women living in the picturesque town of Eastwick, Rhode Island. Alex is a sculptor and single mother of one daughter; Jane is a newly divorced music teacher unable to have children; while Sukie has six"
"that the book may be more of a satire of such ideas. At the same time, there were those who praised the novel as a departure from John Updike's previous novels. Regarding conceptions of misogyny in the novel, a particular passage went viral after a series of Twitter posts by journalist Julia Carpenter condemned Updike's portrayal of female vs. male urination. The passage, largely taken out of context, can be understood to satirize the idealization of male power and might be presenting issues of poor sexual education by displaying Sukie's ignorance of her own biology. The Witches of Eastwick The"
"The Witches of Chiswick The Witches Of Chiswick is a novel by the British author Robert Rankin, the title parodying that of ""The Witches of Eastwick"" by John Updike. Working in a dystopian 23rd century, William Starling finds a painting, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd from the 19th Century with the image of a digital watch hidden within it. William takes a drug which confers the ability to tap into ancestral memories. After learning of events occurring in the 19th century, William and Tim are attacked by a Babbage robot sent from the past, and William escapes to"
"John Updike 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 three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner), 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"
"and the embryos all die. The Doctor walks away, head bowed, expressing regret about the destruction. Last of the Gaderene Last of the Gaderene is a BBC Books original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Third Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, Captain Yates and other members of UNIT. Last of the Gaderene was re-released in 2013 for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. RAF Culverton, East Anglia, during the Second World War. Alec Whistler, a Spitfire pilot discovers a green crystal in the wreckage left"
"Eastwick (TV series) Eastwick is an American fantasy comedy-drama television series based on John Updike's novel ""The Witches of Eastwick"" which aired on ABC from September 23 until December 30, 2009. The series was developed by Maggie Friedman, and starred Paul Gross as the infamous Darryl Van Horne, alongside Jaime Ray Newman, Lindsay Price, and Rebecca Romijn as the eponymous witches. Joanna Frankel, Katherine Gardener, and Roxanne Torcoletti were three dissatisfied women living in the picturesque town of Eastwick, New England. Yearning for excitement in their lives, each of the women desperately make a wish for “something to change”, in"
"later another petition was organised in an attempt to obtain pardons for Chattox and Demdike. It followed the Swiss government's pardon earlier that year of Anna Göldi, beheaded in 1782, thought to be the last person in Europe to be executed as a witch. William Harrison Ainsworth, a Victorian novelist considered in his day the equal of Dickens, wrote a romanticised account of the Pendle witches published in 1849. ""The Lancashire Witches"" is the only one of his 40 novels never to have been out of print. The British writer Robert Neill dramatised the events of 1612 in his novel"
"stylized language, and his attention to sensual detail. His work is also deeply imbued with Christian themes. The two final installments of the Rabbit series, ""Rabbit is Rich"" (1981) and ""Rabbit at Rest"" (1990), were both awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other notable works include the Henry Bech novels (1970–98), ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1984), ""Roger's Version"" (1986) and ""In the Beauty of the Lilies"" (1996), which literary critic Michiko Kakutani called ""arguably his finest."" Frequently linked with Updike is the novelist Philip Roth. Roth vigorously explores Jewish identity in American society, especially in the postwar era and the"
"who want to expose the truth. The book is described as a ""drawn out and sometimes rambling, the plot lacking in impetus"", but is notable as being the last novel to be both written (circa 1802) and published (in 1826, posthumously) by Mrs Radcliffe. The book is noteworthy for its detailed descriptions of locations. Gaston de Blondeville Gaston de Blondeville is a Gothic novel by noted English author Ann Radcliffe, published posthumously in 1826, three years after Radcliffe's death. Set in the 13th-century court of England's King Henry III, the novel centers around the wedding of the title character. The"
"and Dickens is reported as saying that he had ""made him a reality"". Mr Pickwick seems to be an amalgamation of ideas from all these sources and is therefore not solely Seymour's creation. All the characteristics of the persona and the name appear to belong to Dickens. It is not known how much of ""The Pickwick Papers"" Seymour created. He committed suicide before the second part of the book was completed and published. He shot himself with a shotgun (fowling piece) in his summer-house behind his home in Liverpool Road, Islington, on 20 April 1836. It is clear that Seymour"
"claimed to have always wanted to sing like fellow nominee, Anthony Warlow. The first international production of ""The Witches of Eastwick"" opened in Australia at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, with Lee as Michael Spofford, and starring comedian Paul McDermott as Darryl van Horne, Marina Prior as Jane, Angela Toohey as Alexandra and Pippa Grandison as Sukie, with Sabrina Batshon as The Little Girl. The show began previews on 19 August 2002. Revisions were made, including new lyrics and the excision of one number, 'Loose Ends'. However, the show never found an audience and closed on 17 November 2002. Lee was"
"develops the computer and in the future Will and Tim are born and lead normal lives. The Witches of Chiswick The Witches Of Chiswick is a novel by the British author Robert Rankin, the title parodying that of ""The Witches of Eastwick"" by John Updike. Working in a dystopian 23rd century, William Starling finds a painting, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd from the 19th Century with the image of a digital watch hidden within it. William takes a drug which confers the ability to tap into ancestral memories. After learning of events occurring in the 19th century, William"
"title in a single-volume edition in New York in November. There are hundreds of differences between the two editions, most slight but some important and illuminating. The London publisher, Richard Bentley, censored or changed sensitive passages; Melville made revisions as well, including a last-minute change to the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as ""Moby Dick"", without the hyphen. One factor that led British reviewers to scorn the book was that it seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship: the British edition lacked the Epilogue,"
"not agree. Alice then conjures up a double of the magistrate, telling him that if he persists then she will have him incarcerated for the rest of his life, and send the double out in his place. Realising now that he has no choice, Nowell agrees to Alice's terms, to which she binds him by making him repeat the words ""May I become subject to the Fiend if I fail in my promise"". Subtitled ""Hoghton Tower"". The Lancashire Witches The Lancashire Witches is the only one of William Harrison Ainsworth's forty novels that has remained continuously in print since its"
"multi-volume edition of John Updike's novels in 2018, all under the editorship of Christopher Carduff. John Updike bibliography The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for his prolific output over a 50-year period. His bibliography includes some 21 novels, 18 short story collections, 12 collections of poetry, 4 children's books, and 12 collections of non-fiction. Novels are highlighted in bold. After publishing the essay ""Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu"" as a standalone special edition book in 2010, and publishing two volumes of short"
"Last of the Gaderene Last of the Gaderene is a BBC Books original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Third Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, Captain Yates and other members of UNIT. Last of the Gaderene was re-released in 2013 for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. RAF Culverton, East Anglia, during the Second World War. Alec Whistler, a Spitfire pilot discovers a green crystal in the wreckage left by a bomb which destroyed the RAF base's Mess, killing his fiance... As a reward for"
"his Bodley Head edition of Ford's writing, calling it ""an afterthought which he (Ford) had not intended to write and later regretted having written."" Greene went on to state that ""...the ""Last Post"" was more than a mistake—it was a disaster, a disaster which has delayed a full critical appreciation of ""Parade's End""."" Certainly ""Last Post"" is very different from the other three novels. It is concerned with peace and reconstruction, and Christopher Tietjens is absent for most of the narrative, which is structured as a series of interior monologues by those closest to him. Yet it has had influential"
"""must be finished first!"" with a sense of urgency. It seems to suggest that in Christine he saw hope of a new life, distinct from the darkness and passionate misery with which ""Don Juan Triumphant"" was created, and which had defined his life up until that point. While the Phantom clearly resolves to finish the piece, seeing it still as a major achievement, he passes away before he can reveal it to the world. The novel's narrator comments that the work was never found in the thirty years since Erik's death and speculates that it may still be in his"
"Seldwyla, while Moers' novel features the Schrecksenmeister Eißpin, who lives in Sledwaya. Keller's work also features a contract in which the alchemist is to fatten up the cat in return for its fat, but in the original the cat escapes by tricking him into marrying the town's witch. The novel features two afterwords: one by the Zamonian writer Optimus Yarnspinner, in which he explains that he is reworking a story named ""Echo the Crat"" which is originally by 'Gofid Letterkerl' (an anagram of Gottfried Keller), because Letterkerl's style makes his works inaccessible to modern readers. In the second afterword, only"
"also common, but most residents of the End of Time find leaving the planet distasteful and clichéd. The title of the series is itself taken from a poem by a fictitious 19th Century poet, Ernest Wheldrake, which Mrs. Amelia Underwood quotes in ""The End of All Songs"". ""Ernest Wheldrake"" had been a pseudonym used by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The original trilogy (""An Alien Heat"", ""The Hollow Lands"", and ""The End of All Songs"") was published between 1972 and 1976. The trilogy purports to tell the last love story in human history. Other stories in this sequence include ""The Transformation of"
"final Alexandrine is completely missing, together with Chatterton's notes. However, according to Dr Fry, the character who utters the final lines must have been Birtha, whose last word might have been something like ""kisste."" The death of Chatterton attracted little notice at the time; for the few who then entertained any appreciative estimate of the Rowley poems regarded him as their mere transcriber. He was interred in a burying-ground attached to the Shoe Lane Workhouse in the parish of St Andrew, Holborn, later the site of Farringdon Market. There is a discredited story that the body of the poet was"
"which the letter ""e"" is the only vowel used. This constraint affects even the title, which would conventionally be spelt ""Revenantes"". An English translation by Ian Monk was published in 1996 as ""The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex"" in the collection ""Three"". It has been remarked by Jacques Roubaud that these two novels draw words from two disjoint sets of the French language, and that a third novel would be possible, made from the words not used so far (those containing both ""e"" and a vowel other than ""e""). ""W ou le souvenir d'enfance"", (""W, or the Memory of Childhood"","
"and his wife's clash with the party leadership, and their decision to leave the party. The final volume, ""No Home but the Struggle"" (1977), sees Sebrill find new meaning by joining the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which helps him to write again. In the last decades of the twentieth century Upward returned to writing short stories, which were published, along with reprints of earlier works, by the Enitharmon Press. His last years were also punctuated by sadness, with the deaths of his wife Hilda, in 1995, and his son Christopher, in 2002. In 2003 Enitharmon celebrated his centenary by publishing"