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Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

by Michael Dirda · 2000

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Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Postand 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 Lolitato the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.

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