Bound to Please

(Buy Direct.) This Pulitzer-Prize-winning essayist offers insight on Herodotus, the Bible, Ovid, The Arabian Nights, Umberto Eco, William Tyndale, Samuel Pepys, William Blake, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, A.E. Housman, Marcel Proust, P.G. Wodehouse, Colette, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Ronald Firbank, Djuna Barnes, Flann O'Brien, Henry Green, T.S. Eliot, and so many more. Not all of the author he covers here created bestsellers, but the works are lasting classics. Here is a celebration of reading, but it's also an education in the pleasure of reading fully and deeply at the fountain of great literature.