Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393324891

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by Michael Dirda (Author)

Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.

Number of Pages: 232

Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.28 IN

Publication Date: October 01, 2003

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