St. Martin's Griffin, September 2007. Trade Paperback. "Do we still know how to read a novel?" John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His answer is an unequivocal, "No." But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what..... More
Pegasus, August 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne..... More
Harvest Books, November 2008. Trade Paperback. This is not your father's list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing with affection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure..... More
Privately Printed, 1929. Limited. Hardcover. Edition limited to 950 copies. Blue boards with paper cover label in cloth backstrip, also with paper label. Wrapped in glassine, housed in box. Bookplate covering scars of previously removed bookplate; else, near fine condition. More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
Harpercollins, September 1998. Hardcover. More
Fulcrum Publishing, October 1991. Trade Paperback. In this humorous confession Tom Raabe addresses the problems of book addiction and offers sympathy to fellow biblioholics. More
