Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393324891)

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.

Author: Michael Dirda
ISBN-10: 0393324893
ISBN-13: 9780393324891
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.28w x 0.60d