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020			_a9780151012510
020			_a9780156033855 (pbk.)
020			_a0151012512
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm80917279
035			_a(OCoLC)80917279
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050	1	4	_aPN 524 _bD598c 2007
082	0	0	_a814.54
100	1		_aDirda, Michael.
245	1	0	_aClassics for pleasure / _cMichael Dirda.
260			_aOrlando : _bHarcourt, _cc2007.
300			_ax, 341 p. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aPlayful 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.
520			_aIn these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books.
650		4	_a20151200.
650		4	_aEnsayos estadounidenses.
650		4	_aLiteratura estadounidenses.
650		0	_aLiterature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCanon (Literature)
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007003029.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-d.html
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007003029-s.html
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