03413cam a2200421 a 4500 121608 20230410130733.0 070124s2007 flu 001 0 eng 14709674 2007003029 GBA759508 bnb 013805266 Uk 9780151012510 9780156033855 (pbk.) 0151012512 (OCoLC)ocm80917279 (OCoLC)80917279 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA UKM C#P YDXCP YBM JAO VP@ Q2Z DLC PN 524 D598c 2007 814.54 Dirda, Michael. Classics for pleasure / Michael Dirda. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007. x, 341 p. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Playful imaginations. Lucian -- Denis Diderot -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Max Beerbohm -- Jaroslav Hašek -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- S. J. Perelman -- Italo Calvino -- Edward Gorey -- Heroes of their time. Beowulf -- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- The Icelandic sagas -- Christopher Marlowe -- Émile Zola -- Ernst Jünger -- James Agee -- Love's mysteries. Sappho -- Arthurian romances -- Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette -- Sören 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 Mérimée -- 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 -- José Maria Eça de Queiros -- Anton Chekhov -- Jean Toomer -- Willa Cather -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- 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 -- André Malraux -- Philip K. Dick. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. 20151200. Ensayos estadounidenses. Literatura estadounidenses. Literature History and criticism. Canon (Literature) Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007003029.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-s.html lcc bk 79498 79498 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PN 524 D598c 2007 00000114809 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk