9780805078770-0805078770-Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life

Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life

ISBN-13: 9780805078770
ISBN-10: 0805078770
Edition: First Edition
Author: Michael Dirda
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780805078770
ISBN-10: 0805078770
Edition: First Edition
Author: Michael Dirda
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover 192 pages

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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (ISBN-13: 9780805078770 and ISBN-10: 0805078770), written by authors Michael Dirda, was published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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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 to live. Though books have always been understood as life-teachers, the exact way in which they instruct, cajole, and convince remains a subject of some mystery. Drawing on sources as diverse as Dr. Seuss and Simone Weil, P. G. Wodehouse and Isaiah Berlin, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Michael Dirda shows how the wit, wisdom, and enchantment of the written word can inform and enrich nearly every aspect of life, from education and work to love and death.

Organized by significant life events and abounding with quotations from great writers and thinkers, Book by Book showcases Dirda's considerable knowledge, which he wears lightly. Favoring showing rather than telling, Dirda draws the reader deeper into the classics, as well as lesser-known works of literature, history, and philosophy, always with an eye to what is relevant to how we might better understand our lives.

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