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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books

Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books

Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great
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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books

by Dirda, Michael

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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. First edition. Stated. May be second printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Woodside Park Civic Association newsletter referencing a presentation by Mr. Dirda laid in.. xxvii, 525, [2] p. Illustrations. Michael Dirda has been called 'the best book critic in America. ' He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for distinguished criticism and is a longtime writer and editor for the Washington Post Book World. This work features scores of Dirda's most engaging essays, all intended to introduce readers to wonderful writers, from the anecdotal Herodotus and James Boswell to the sensuous Colette and Steven Millhauser and European masters including Joseph Roth, Flann O'Brien, and Penelope Fitzgerald.

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Title
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books
Author
Dirda, Michael
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition. Stated. May be second printing
ISBN 10
0393057577
ISBN 13
9780393057577
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2005
Keywords
Umberto Eco, William Tyndale, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Pynchon, Peter Ackroy, Gustave Flaubert, Oscar Wilde, Blavatsky, Marcel Proust, Flann O'Brien, Djuna, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Berger, Edmund Wilson, Robert Graves, Don DeLillo, Nancy Mitford

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