Readings: Essays and Literary EntertainmentsIntimate, 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. |
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Contents
II | 1 |
III | 4 |
IV | 9 |
V | 14 |
VI | 19 |
VII | 23 |
VIII | 28 |
IX | 33 |
XXVI | 117 |
XXVII | 122 |
XXVIII | 127 |
XXIX | 132 |
XXX | 137 |
XXXI | 140 |
XXXII | 145 |
XXXIII | 150 |
X | 38 |
XI | 43 |
XII | 48 |
XIII | 53 |
XIV | 58 |
XV | 63 |
XVI | 68 |
XVII | 73 |
XVIII | 78 |
XIX | 83 |
XX | 86 |
XXI | 90 |
XXII | 95 |
XXIII | 100 |
XXIV | 105 |
XXV | 112 |
XXXIV | 155 |
XXXV | 160 |
XXXVI | 164 |
XXXVII | 169 |
XXXVIII | 173 |
XXXIX | 177 |
XL | 179 |
XLI | 184 |
XLII | 189 |
XLIII | 193 |
XLIV | 198 |
XLV | 203 |
XLVI | 208 |
XLVII | 213 |
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