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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education Paper back - 2007
by Michael Dirda
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This new work features scores of Dirda's most engaging essays, all intended to introduce readers to wonderful writers, from the anecdotal Herodotus and James Boswell to the sensuous Colette and Steven Millhauser and European masters including Joseph Roth, Flann O'Brien, and Penelope Fitzgerald.
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- Title Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
- Author Michael Dirda
- Binding Paper Back
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date May 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # 111567
- ISBN 9780393329636 / 0393329631
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 6.58 x 1.46 in (23.32 x 16.71 x 3.71 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 081
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