Bound to please : an extraordinary one-volume literary education : essays on great writers and their books
Surveying the whole world of books, literary essayist Dirda opens with an impassioned critique of modern reading habits, then presents many of the great, and idiosyncratic, writers he loves the most. He starts with ancient classics and ends with groundbreaking science fiction; in between, he writes about everything from Renaissance intellectual history and Russian literary theory to spaghetti westerns and neglected modern masters.--From publisher description
Literature
xxvii, 525 pages ; 25 cm
9780393057577, 9780393329636, 0393057577, 0393329631
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