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In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books.
Imprint:
Orlando - Harcourt
Pages:
341
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780151012510, 0151012512
Call number:
809 D598c 2007
Language:
English
Contents:
Playful imaginations. Lucian
Denis Diderot
Thomas Love Peacock
Max Beerbohm
Jaroslav Hašek
Ivy Compton-Burnett
S. J. Perelman
Italo Calvino
Edward Gorey
Heroes of their time. Beowulf
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
The Icelandic sagas
Christopher Marlowe
Émile Zola
Ernst Jünger
James Agee
Love's mysteries. Sappho
Arthurian romances
Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette
Sören Kierkegaard
George Meredith
C. P. Cavafy
Georgette Heyer
Anna Akhmatova
Daphne du Maurier
Words from the wise. Lao-tse
Heraclitus
Cicero
Erasmus
The English religious tradition
Benedict de Spinoza
Samuel Johnson
Everyday magic. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The classic fairy tales
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Prosper Mérimée
Frances Hodgson Burnett
E. Nesbit/John Masefield
Walter de la Mare
Lives of consequence. Plutarch
Girolamo Cardano
John Aubrey
Alexander Pope
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Frederick Douglass
Jacob Burckhardt
Henry James
W. H. Auden
The dark side. John Webster
Mary Shelley
James Hogg
Sheridan Le Fanu
Bram Stoker
M. R. James
William Roughead
H. P. Lovecraft
Traveler's tales. Thomas More
Daniel Defoe
Xavier de Maistre
Jules Verne
J. K. Huysmans
Isak Dinesen
Robert Byron
The way we live now. Petronius
Elizabeth Gaskell
Ivan Goncharov
José Maria Eça de Queiros
Anton Chekhov
Jean Toomer
Willa Cather
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Zora Neale Hurston
Eudora Welty
Realms of adventure. H. Rider Haggard
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling
H. G. Wells
G. K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Dashiell Hammett
Encyclopedic Visions. Ovid
Robert Burton
Edward Gibbon
J. G. Frazer
H. W. Fowler
Ezra Pound
André Malraux
Philip K. Dick
Denis Diderot
Thomas Love Peacock
Max Beerbohm
Jaroslav Hašek
Ivy Compton-Burnett
S. J. Perelman
Italo Calvino
Edward Gorey
Heroes of their time. Beowulf
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
The Icelandic sagas
Christopher Marlowe
Émile Zola
Ernst Jünger
James Agee
Love's mysteries. Sappho
Arthurian romances
Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette
Sören Kierkegaard
George Meredith
C. P. Cavafy
Georgette Heyer
Anna Akhmatova
Daphne du Maurier
Words from the wise. Lao-tse
Heraclitus
Cicero
Erasmus
The English religious tradition
Benedict de Spinoza
Samuel Johnson
Everyday magic. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The classic fairy tales
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Prosper Mérimée
Frances Hodgson Burnett
E. Nesbit/John Masefield
Walter de la Mare
Lives of consequence. Plutarch
Girolamo Cardano
John Aubrey
Alexander Pope
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Frederick Douglass
Jacob Burckhardt
Henry James
W. H. Auden
The dark side. John Webster
Mary Shelley
James Hogg
Sheridan Le Fanu
Bram Stoker
M. R. James
William Roughead
H. P. Lovecraft
Traveler's tales. Thomas More
Daniel Defoe
Xavier de Maistre
Jules Verne
J. K. Huysmans
Isak Dinesen
Robert Byron
The way we live now. Petronius
Elizabeth Gaskell
Ivan Goncharov
José Maria Eça de Queiros
Anton Chekhov
Jean Toomer
Willa Cather
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Zora Neale Hurston
Eudora Welty
Realms of adventure. H. Rider Haggard
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling
H. G. Wells
G. K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Dashiell Hammett
Encyclopedic Visions. Ovid
Robert Burton
Edward Gibbon
J. G. Frazer
H. W. Fowler
Ezra Pound
André Malraux
Philip K. Dick
Notes:
Includes index
Playful imaginations. Lucian -- Denis Diderot -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Max Beerbohm -- Jaroslav Hašek -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- S. J. Perelman -- Italo Calvino -- Edward Gorey -- Heroes of their time. Beowulf -- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- The Icelandic sagas -- Christopher Marlowe -- Émile Zola -- Ernst Jünger -- James Agee -- Love's mysteries. Sappho -- Arthurian romances -- Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette -- Sören Kierkegaard -- George Meredith -- C. P. Cavafy -- Georgette Heyer -- Anna Akhmatova -- Daphne du Maurier -- Words from the wise. Lao-tse -- Heraclitus -- Cicero -- Erasmus -- The English religious tradition -- Benedict de Spinoza -- Samuel Johnson -- -- Everyday magic. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The classic fairy tales -- E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Prosper Mérimée -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- E. Nesbit/John Masefield -- Walter de la Mare -- -- Lives of consequence. Plutarch -- Girolamo Cardano -- John Aubrey -- Alexander Pope -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Frederick Douglass -- Jacob Burckhardt -- Henry James -- W. H. Auden -- The dark side. John Webster -- Mary Shelley -- James Hogg -- Sheridan Le Fanu -- Bram Stoker -- M. R. James -- William Roughead -- H. P. Lovecraft -- Traveler's tales. Thomas More -- Daniel Defoe -- Xavier de Maistre -- Jules Verne -- J. K. Huysmans -- Isak Dinesen -- Robert Byron -- The way we live now. Petronius -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Ivan Goncharov -- José Maria Eça de Queiros -- Anton Chekhov -- Jean Toomer -- Willa Cather -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Eudora Welty -- Realms of adventure. H. Rider Haggard -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- Rudyard Kipling -- H. G. Wells -- G. K. Chesterton -- Agatha Christie -- Dashiell Hammett -- Encyclopedic Visions. Ovid -- Robert Burton -- Edward Gibbon -- J. G. Frazer -- H. W. Fowler -- Ezra Pound -- André Malraux -- Philip K. Dick
Playful imaginations. Lucian -- Denis Diderot -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Max Beerbohm -- Jaroslav Hašek -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- S. J. Perelman -- Italo Calvino -- Edward Gorey -- Heroes of their time. Beowulf -- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- The Icelandic sagas -- Christopher Marlowe -- Émile Zola -- Ernst Jünger -- James Agee -- Love's mysteries. Sappho -- Arthurian romances -- Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette -- Sören Kierkegaard -- George Meredith -- C. P. Cavafy -- Georgette Heyer -- Anna Akhmatova -- Daphne du Maurier -- Words from the wise. Lao-tse -- Heraclitus -- Cicero -- Erasmus -- The English religious tradition -- Benedict de Spinoza -- Samuel Johnson -- -- Everyday magic. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The classic fairy tales -- E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Prosper Mérimée -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- E. Nesbit/John Masefield -- Walter de la Mare -- -- Lives of consequence. Plutarch -- Girolamo Cardano -- John Aubrey -- Alexander Pope -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Frederick Douglass -- Jacob Burckhardt -- Henry James -- W. H. Auden -- The dark side. John Webster -- Mary Shelley -- James Hogg -- Sheridan Le Fanu -- Bram Stoker -- M. R. James -- William Roughead -- H. P. Lovecraft -- Traveler's tales. Thomas More -- Daniel Defoe -- Xavier de Maistre -- Jules Verne -- J. K. Huysmans -- Isak Dinesen -- Robert Byron -- The way we live now. Petronius -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Ivan Goncharov -- José Maria Eça de Queiros -- Anton Chekhov -- Jean Toomer -- Willa Cather -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Eudora Welty -- Realms of adventure. H. Rider Haggard -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- Rudyard Kipling -- H. G. Wells -- G. K. Chesterton -- Agatha Christie -- Dashiell Hammett -- Encyclopedic Visions. Ovid -- Robert Burton -- Edward Gibbon -- J. G. Frazer -- H. W. Fowler -- Ezra Pound -- André Malraux -- Philip K. Dick
Statement of responsibility:
Michael Dirda
Characteristics:
x, 341 p. ;,24 cm
Author (Original Script):
Dirda, Michael
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