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Readings : Essays and Literary Entertainments
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780393324891
- ISBN-10: 0393324893
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: October 2003
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.28 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.51 pounds
- Page Count: 232
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