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<p><P><i>Classics for pleasure?&#160;To some readers this may seem an oxymoron.&#160;Aren't classics supposed to be difficult, esoteric, and probably a little boring? . . . I sympathize with this common view, even if &#160;it is largely wrong.&#160; Classics are classics not because they are educational, but because people have found them worth reading, generation after generation, century after century.&#160; More than anything else, great books speak to us of our own all-too-real feelings, confusions and daydreams <P></i>This is not, your father's&#151;or your mother's&#151;list of&#160;classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books.&#160;Writing with affection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, as well as of biography and history, poetry and children's literature.&#160;Organized thematically, these are the works that have shaped our imaginations and inspired our dreams and adventures. Here are Sappho's yearnings and the Arthurian romances, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the ghost stories of M. R. James,&#160;the clas

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Author

Dirda, Michael

Publisher

Harcourt Trade Publishers; Harcourt

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156033855

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14