Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments COM051350 ISBN10: 1545224897

ISBN10: 1545224897

Pepper teams up with a mysterious private detective and a cat so traumatized by the murder that she's not talking-and that cat could hold the key to Pepper's innocence

ISBN13: 9781447320869

Austen's novels have become timeless classics because of their biting wit

particularly absorbing (Patricia J

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments COM051350 ISBN10: 1545224897Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these