You should be able to get the Dover edition of The World as Will and Representation from Alibris for not much more than the cost of shipping. Cambridge University Press is or was bringing out a new edition of his works.
Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown, a memoir of his life, chiefly as a historian of late antiquity. It is very long, the sole reason that I won't be giving it as a Christmas present.
The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paukofsky, also very long.
Florence King wrote that "Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors."
The US provided lip service to the idea, but quickly became paranoid about the threat of world wide communism and changed its tune relatively quickly. In the places where this wasn't a factor, it wasn't altruism by any stretch, but economic interests. The US saw that a post-colonial world would be fantastic for business...
> In Texas, she said, “There’s no way we would have been able to read the entire thing. It’s [Enemies: A Love Story] a beautiful book, but there is an affair in it.”
Wow. Wait'll they encounter Genesis, Samuel, Kings, etc.
Educational fads come and go. My brother is five (school) years younger than I am, which was time enough for our school to move from phonics to shape recognition. (His first-grade year will have been 60 years ago in September.) He survived and reads a lot. It didn't hurt that we grew up in a house with lots of books.
I had New Math somewhere around middle school. Probably the time could have been better used, but it didn't cripple me.
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