Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

by Dirda, Michael
ISBN: 9780393324891
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Dirda, Michael
  • ISBN: 9780393324891
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 232
  • Publication Year: 2003