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001 ocn223901387
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008 080813r20082007cau 000 0 eng
010 $a 2007003029
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035 $a(OCoLC)223901387$z(OCoLC)298456479
050 00 $aPN524$b.D57 2008
082 04 $a809$222
100 1 $aDirda, Michael.
245 10 $aClassics for pleasure /$cMichael Dirda.
260 $aSan Diego, Calif. :$bHarcourt ;$aGodalming :$bMelia [distributor],$c2008.
263 $a200811
300 $aviii, 341 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published: 2007.
505 0 $aPlayful imaginations. Lucian -- Denis Diderot -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Max Beerbohm -- Jaroslav Has ek -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- S.J. Perelman -- Italo Calvino -- Edward Gorey -- Heroes of their time. Beowulf -- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- The Icelandic sagas -- Christopher Marlowe -- E mile Zola -- Ernst Ju nger -- James Agee -- Love's mysteries. Sappho -- Arthurian romances -- Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette -- So ren Kierkegaard -- George Meredith -- C.P. Cavafy -- Georgette Heyer -- Anna Akhmatova -- Daphne du Maurier -- Words from the wise. Lao-tse -- Heraclitus -- Cicero -- Erasmus -- The English religious tradition -- Benedict de Spinoza -- Samuel Johnson -- Everyday magic. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The classic fairy tales -- E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Prosper Me rime e -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- E. Nesbit/John Masefield -- Walter de la Mare -- Lives of consequence. Plutarch -- Girolamo Cardano -- John Aubrey -- Alexander Pope -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Frederick Douglass -- Jacob Burckhardt -- Henry James -- W.H. Auden -- The dark side. John Webster -- Mary Shelley -- James Hogg -- Sheridan Le Fanu -- Bram Stoker -- M.R. James -- William Roughead -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Traveler's tales. Thomas More -- Daniel Defoe -- Xavier de Maistre -- Jules Verne -- J.K. Huysmans -- Isak Dinesen -- Robert Byron -- The way we live now. Petronius -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Ivan Goncharov -- Jose Maria Ec ʹa de Queiros -- Anton Chekhov -- Jean Toomer -- Willa Cather -- Louis-Ferdinand Ce line -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Eudora Welty -- Realms of adventure. H. Rider Haggard -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- Rudyard Kipling -- H.G. Wells -- G.K. Chesterton -- Agatha Christie -- Dashiell Hammett -- Encyclopedic Visions. Ovid -- Robert Burton -- Edward Gibbon -- J.G. Frazer -- H.W. Fowler -- Ezra Pound -- Andre Malraux -- Philip K. Dick.
520 $aIn these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books.
650 0 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCanon (Literature)
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650 7 $aLiterature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00999953
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-s.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007003029.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-d.html
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