Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/2003
ISBN: 9780393324891
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.28w x 0.60d