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  • Book by Book

    Notes on Reading and Life

    de Michael Dirda ...
    "As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again," the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic discusses the rewards of reading books ( Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice).Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • On Conan Doyle

    de Michael Dirda ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock HolmesA passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars—the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Browsings

    de Michael Dirda ...
    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). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    An Open Book

    de Michael Dirda ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Hogan ...

    Completo

    11 hora 10 minutos

    Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda shares his love for all literature-novels, comic books, poetry, even erotica-in this humorous memoir of his childhood. Growing up in a bluecollar, Midwestern household of the 50s and 60s, Dirda appalled his father with his insatiable thirst for reading. His humorous remembrances of the works he loved will spark the interest of anyone who savors a good story. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Browsings

    A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books

    de Michael Dirda ...
    Narrado por John Lescault ...

    Completo

    6 hora 55 minutos

    From Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life—the perfect companion for any lover of books.Michael Dirda has been hailed as “the best-read person in America” by the Paris Review and “the best book critic in America” by the New York Observer. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, he was awarded for his reviews in ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Unfortunate Fursey

    de Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda ...
    Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that one hapless monk, the simple-minded Brother Fursey, cannot manage to pronounce the necessary words of exorcism ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • I Am Jonathan Scrivener

    de Claude Houghton, Michael Dirda ...
    "So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired." - Hugh Walpole"I Am Jonathan Scrivener remains a tantalizing, highly diverting philosophical novel of rare elegance and wit." - Michael DirdaJames Wrexham is thirty-nine, lonely, and stuck in a dead-end job when he comes upon an advertisement for a position as secretary to Mr. Jonathan ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Return of Fursey

    de Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda ...
    Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when his old enemies seize his wife, Fursey resolves to embrace evil and return to Ireland to reclaim her. Along the way, he’ll have to contend with bloodthirsty Vikings, a melancholy vampire, an alcoholic wizard, a ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great Age of Storytelling

    The Glory Days of Adventurers and Rogues, Time Travelers, and Great Detectives

    de Michael Dirda ...
    With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"—as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called—aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fantasy and romance.Kidnapped, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Kim, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Trent’s Last Case, Captain Blood, The Enchanted Castle, The Man Who Was ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Novels

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Michael DirdaThough endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the Sherlock Holmes stories have never been surpassed. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivates readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, ... Leer más

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  • The Broken Sword

    de Poul Anderson ...
    This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic."One of the most influential fantasies I have ever read." —World Fantasy Award–winning author Michael MoorcockPublished the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources.In his greed for land and power ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Plague Court Murders

    A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery

    de John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Sir Henry Merrivale Mysteries
    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 lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus