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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education: Essays on Great Writers and Their Books
by Dirda, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Woodside Park Civic Association newsletter referencing a presentation by M
- ISBN 10
- 0393057577
- ISBN 13
- 9780393057577
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59055
- 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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