Michael Dirda — The Great Age of Storytelling: The Glory Days of Adventurers and Rogues, Time Travelers and Great Detectives — at Conn Ave

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With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"—as Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda has been called—aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fantasy and romance. Kidnapped, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Kim, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Trent's Last Case, Captain Blood, The Enchanted Castle, The Man Who Was Thursday—these are just a few of the many wonderful works reclaimed for 21st century readers in Michael Dirda's The Great Age of Storytelling. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1930 in England, The Great Age of Storytelling is both a celebration of some of the world's best "comfort reading" and an introduction to many of the foundational masterpieces of modern genre liter…

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