Readings : essays and literary entertainments / Michael Dirda.

In these playful, erudite, and idiosyncratically personal essays from the Washington Post Book World, Michael Dirda shares some of the pleasures of the reading life. His subjects range from classics in translation to fantasy and crime fiction; from children's books to American and European lite...

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Main Author: Dirda, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000.
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505 0 |a The crime of his life -- The quest for Scrivener -- Talismans -- Maxims, etc. -- Heart of the matter -- Bookman's Saturday -- Supplementary materials -- Listening to my father -- Romantic scholarship -- Weekend with Wodehouse -- An abecedary -- Mr. Wright -- Heian holiday -- Childhood's end -- The one and the many -- Commencement advice -- Four novels and a memoir -- The October country -- Bookish fantasies -- Pages on life's way -- A garland for Max -- Read at whim! -- Comedy tonight -- Light of other days -- Data daze -- Four-leaf clovers -- Sez who? -- Lament for a maker -- Clubland -- The learning channels -- Guy Davenport -- Eros by any other name -- Frank confessions -- Mememormee -- Tomes for tots -- Three classics -- Vacation reading -- One more modest proposal -- Shake scenes -- After strange books -- Awful bits -- Turning 50 -- Blame it on books -- On the road not taken -- Excursion -- Millennial readings. 
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