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Readings : Essays and Literary Entertainments - Michael Dirda

Readings

Essays and Literary Entertainments

By: Michael Dirda

Paperback | 1 October 2003

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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.
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"Michael Dirda may be as close to the ideal as we are likely to get." -- Annie Proulx
"Michael Dirda is a superb literary essayist, and Readings should provide deep delight for discerning readers." -- Harold Bloom

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