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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
Bound to Please An Extraordinary OneVolume Literary Education Author:Michael Dirda "Michael Dirda may be as close to the ideal critic as we are likely to get."Annie Proulx — Surveying the dizzying universe of classic books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our timeand great fun to read. Opening with an impassioned critique of... more » modern reading habits, he then presents many of the great, and idiosyncratic, writers he loves most. In this showcase of one hundred of the world's most astonishing books, Dirda covers a remarkable range of literature, including popular genres such as the detective novel and ghost story, while never neglecting the deeper satisfactions of sometimes overlooked classics. Short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for criticism, Bound to Please is a glorious celebration of just how much fun reading can be.« less