Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education

6 best books like Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education (Michael Dirda): Cat's Eye, The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, A Year by the Sea, Painless Grammar

Cat's Eye

Author	Margaret Atwood
ISBN	0385491026

Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship,...

The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded

Author	Clifton Fadiman
ISBN	0062720732

Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of...

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Author	Dani Shapiro
ISBN	0802121403

"Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write."

From the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, meditation on the...

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	1534427872

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.

Life’s always an adventure for the Athena...

A Year by the Sea

Author	Joan Anderson
ISBN	0767905938

Now available in paperback, the entrancing story of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.

Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive...

Painless Grammar

Author	Rebecca S. Elliott
ISBN	0764134361

This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new...