Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books - Hardcover

Dirda, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393057577 ISBN 13: 9780393057577

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books is comprised of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, in a volume that includes explorations of a range of genres as well as numerous specific works. 15,000 first printing.

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Reseña del editor

Among the most enjoyable of literary critics, Michael Dirda combines erudition with enthusiasm, a taste for the outre and the forgotten, and a playful, understated wit. Like George Orwell or Gore Vidal, Dirda delights in popular genres, such as the detective novel and the ghost story, without neglecting the deeper satisfactions of sometimes-overlooked classics. This new work features scores of Dirda's most engaging essays, never previously collected in book form, all intended to introduce readers to wonderful writers, from the anecdotal Herodotus and James Boswell to the sensuous Colette and Steven Millhauser to such European masters as Joseph Roth, Flann O'Brien, and Penelope Fitzgerald. With his trademark enthusiasm, Dirda also explores The Arabian Nights, the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, the crime novels of Chester Himes and K. C. Constantine, and the worlds of Tarzan, Cormac McCarthy, and Proust. Bound to Please is a glorious celebration of just how much fun reading can be."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393057577
• ISBN 13: 9780393057577
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 525
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