Readings
Essays and Literary Entertainments
by Michael Dirda
240 pages· 2003· ISBN 9780393324891
About
A collection of classic essays and reviews by a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Washington Post includes writings on the author's first experiences of Beckett and Faulkner in high school, a meeting of the P.G. Wodehouse Society, and a discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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