The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by Bloom, Harold

The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781984898432)

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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by Bloom, Harold

The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

$18.00
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by Bloom, Harold

The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.

In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic--gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Mis駻ables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald.

Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.

Author: Harold Bloom
ISBN-10: 1984898434
ISBN-13: 9781984898432
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2021
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d
By Harold Bloom
By Harold Bloom
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HAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, where he taught for over sixty years. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include Possessed by Memory, The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine.

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