Classics for Pleasure
by Michael Dirda
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Author: Michael DirdaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-10
ISBN: 0156033852
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Mariner Books
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This is a book that will make you wonder what you've been doing all your life, even if you call yourself a "Book Person." Michael Dirda, reviewer for the Washington Post, must be the best-read author in our times. Here, he gives you a collection of brief encomia, summaries of books you've heard about but never read, books that might be called 'second-tier," not quite Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dante, Sophocles but nevertheless worth our attention. The only negative is that it has totally disrupted my late-life reading plan, so that I've ordered, read, or plan to read Sappho, Perelman, Oblomov, Lucian, Gaskell, and numerous others that I have neglected. This is a guide-book of sorts that,if you have the courage, you should have in a prominent place on your bookshelf.
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