Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and longtime book columnist for the
Washington Post. He is the author of four collections of essays,
Readings,
Bound to Please,
Book by Book, and
Classics for Pleasure, as well as the memoir
An Open Book. A lifelong Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle fan, he was inducted into The Baker Street Irregulars in 2002.
16 Ebooks por Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda: On Conan Doyle
From Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock Holmes A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize–winning criti …
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Isaac Babel & Nathalie Babel: Red Cavalry
‘Amazing not only as literature but as biography.’ —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshne …
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Ezra Pound: ABC of Reading
Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda. This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. …
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Poul Anderson: Broken Sword
This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic. Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson’s nove …
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John Dickson Carr: Plague Court Murders
When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime. Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its l …
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Michael Dirda: Browsings
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). …
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Stendhal: Memoirs of Egotism
Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author’s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal’s intended autobiogra …
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George Santayana: Three Philosophical Poets
“I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has fo …
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Pamela Hansford Johnson: The Unspeakable Skipton
It’s not easy being a genius. Just ask Daniel Skipton, the greatest—or, let us say, the most under-recognized—novelist of his generation. Skipton is only a few revisions away from finishing his maste …
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Pankaj Mishra & Alaa Al Aswany: Browse
A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove – we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to rev …
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