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Classics for Pleasure (Paperback)

By: Michael Dirda (Author)

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Organized thematically, a collection of essays introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining and informative books, covering masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, epics, history, philosophy, essays, and children's literature, by authors ranging from Sappho and Petronius to Frederick Douglass, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Georgette Heyer. Reprint.

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Michael Dirda reinforces the reasons he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Washington Post book criticism: he makes reading great books sound like sheer bliss, and he does so without condescension or pandering. Dirda arranges writers (and their best books) into hilariously incongruous groups--how many times have Kierkegaard and King Arthur been made to rub shoulders? The choices are inspired, as Dirda makes us want to pick up about 90 books simultaneously, from ancient Greek plays to horror novels, and revel in the pure joy they have to offer us. This would be a good classic to start with.

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