Readings
Author | : Michael Dirda |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 0393324893 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780393324891 |
Rating | : 4/5 (891 Downloads) |
Download or read book Readings written by Michael Dirda and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.