{"product_id":"9798897106318","title":"The  Great Age of Storytelling: The Glory Days of Adventurers and Rogues, Time Travelers, and Great Detectives","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eDirda, Michael\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePegasus Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12\/1\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKidnapped, 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\u003c\/i\u003e—these are just a few of the many wonderful works reclaimed for 21st-century readers in Michael Dirda’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great Age of Storytelling\u003c\/i\u003e. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1930 in England, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Age of Storytelling \u003c\/i\u003eis both a celebration of some of the world’s best “comfort reading” and an introduction to many of the foundational masterpieces of modern genre literature. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKnown for his engagingly conversational style, Dirda, a longtime book columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003ealso champions lesser-known works deserving renewed attention today. Readers will be introduced to the thrilling historical romances of Stanley J. Weyman, Richard Marsh's daringly transgressive and macabre chiller, \u003ci\u003eThe Beetle\u003c\/i\u003e (which appeared the same year as \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and outsold it), Walter Besant's \u003ci\u003eThe Revolt of Man,\u003c\/i\u003e which reverses the traditional roles of the sexes, and the comic novels of F. Anstey, Barry Pain, J. Storer Clouston and other precursors of P.G. Wodehouse (whose early work is also included).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd that's just a beginning. Who can forget those sinister yet beguiling rivals of Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Moriarty such as Guy Boothby's suave Dr. Nikola, Sax Rohmer's insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade and Robert Eustace's beautiful and ruthless Madame Koluchy, or Anthony Skene's world-weary Monsieur Zenith? There are appreciations, too, of E.R. Eddison's epic \u003ci\u003eThe Worm Ouroboros\u003c\/i\u003e, E.A. Wyke-Smith's \u003ci\u003eThe Marvellous Land of Snergs \u003c\/i\u003e(which influenced Tolkien's \u003ci\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/i\u003e), Margaret Irwin's poignant time-slip romance, \u003ci\u003eStill She Wished for Company,\u003c\/i\u003e and, not least, such cautionary fables as Owen Gregory's \u003ci\u003eMecannia, the Super-State \u003c\/i\u003eand Katharine Burdekin's prescient \u003ci\u003eSwastika Night\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCapacious and absorbing, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Age of Storytelling \u003c\/i\u003ecan be enjoyed both for the pleasure of Dirda's bookish company and as a guide to a lost world of compulsively entertaining fiction\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e As admirers of Michael Dirda's earlier books know—these include \u003ci\u003eBrowsings, Classics for Pleasure \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Bound to Please\u003c\/i\u003e, among others—he has devoted his life to promoting reading, especially the reading of the great works of the past. T\u003ci\u003ehe Great Age of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStorytelling\u003c\/i\u003e may be his magnum opus.","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48203244830975,"sku":"9798897106318","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9798897106318_s600x595.jpg?v=1776095285","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9798897106318","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}