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Product Description: 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" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer)...read more
Hardcover:
9781410485007 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 23, 2015), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves.
9781605988443 | Pegasus Books, August 15, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.
Paperback:
9781681772585 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, December 6, 2016), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781504616089 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Browsings collects fifty of Dirda's witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves.
Product Description: All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the Sherlock Holmes stories have never been surpassed...read more
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9780143107132 | Penguin Classics, November 24, 2015, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the Sherlock Holmes stories have never been surpassed.
Product Description: Browsings collects fifty of Dirda's witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the postmoderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Marilynne Robinson and Hunter S...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781504616072 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Browsings collects fifty of Dirda's witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves.
9781504616065 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Browsings collects fifty of Dirda's witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves.
Product Description: Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writerâs poetry and prose. As a publisher, Peabodyâs steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative, and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose work he has championed...read more
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9780984832989 | Santa Fe Writers Project, April 1, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writerâs poetry and prose.
Product Description: A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregularsâthe most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator, as well as a rare insiderâs account of the curiously delightful activities and playful scholarship of The Baker Street Irregulars...read more
Hardcover:
9780691151359 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 10, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A 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.
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9780691164120 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 9, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregularsâthe most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups.
Product Description: "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...read more
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9781939140081 | Valancourt Books, April 1, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: "So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired.
Product Description: Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it...read more
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9781590176160 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, May 7, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death.
Product Description: James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel, A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not knowâRobert Phelps...read more
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9781582436050 | Counterpoint, August 1, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not knowâRobert Phelps.
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9781582437262 | Counterpoint, July 12, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: James Salter had written two novels, The Hunters and The Arm of Flesh, but it was his third, remarkable novel, A Sport and a Pastime, together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer, that in 1969 elicited a letter of admiration from a writer and critic he did not knowâRobert Phelps.
Product Description: Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first to find expression...read more
Hardcover:
9780674059047 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 2011, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R.
Product Description: Three of George MacDonald Fraserâs incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman.Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research...read more
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9780307592682 | Everymans Library, February 2, 2010, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Three of George MacDonald Fraserâs incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman.
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9780131898615, titled "The Creative Impulse Combined: An Introduction to the Arts" | 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993), cover price $50.67 | also contains The Creative Impulse Combined: An Introduction to the Arts | About this edition: The Creative Impulse Combined: An Introduction to the Arts (Vol 1
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