The Manticore (Häftad)
avRobertson Davies, Michael Dirda
ISBN: 9780143039136 - UTGIVEN: 2006-02Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies's acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticore--the second book in the series after Fifth Business--follows David[...]
Das Nibelungenlied (Pocket)
avBurton Raffel, Michael Dirda, Edward R. Haymes
ISBN: 9780300125986 - UTGIVEN: 200801No poem in German literature is so well known and studied in Europe as the 800-year-old "Das Nibelungenlied". In the English-speaking world, however, the poem has remained little known, languishing without an adequate translation. This wonderful new translation by eminent translator Burton Raffel br[...]
Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game (Inbunden)
avGeorge MacDonald Fraser, Michael Dirda
ISBN: 9780307592682 - UTGIVEN: 2010-02
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (Inbunden)
avIsaac Asimov, Michael Dirda
ISBN: 9780307593962 - UTGIVEN: 201011Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who ca[...]
On Conan Doyle (Inbunden)
avMichael Dirda
ISBN: 9780691151359 - UTGIVEN: 201110A 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[...]
ABC of Reading (Pocket)
avEzra Pound, Michael Dirda, Ezra Pound
ISBN: 9780811218931 - UTGIVEN: 201010This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound'saesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration ofthe world's best literature. With characteristic vigor and i[...]
Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid (Inbunden)
avOvid, David R. (TRN) Slavitt, Michael (INT) Dirda
ISBN: 9780674059047 - UTGIVEN: 2011-05Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first [...]
