Michael Dirda: 7 books
by Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
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...
Book by Book
Notes on Reading and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both
Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how...
by Claude Houghton, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
"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." - Michael Dirda
James Wrexham...
On Conan Doyle
Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
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. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction...
by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when his old enemies seize his wife, Fursey resolves to embrace evil and return to Ireland to reclaim her. Along the...
by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that...
by Richard Peabody, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer's poetry and prose. As a publisher, Peabody's steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative, and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose...