Classics for pleasure
In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books.
| Main Author: | Dirda, Michael. |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Orlando :
Harcourt,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.