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

by:  Harold Bloom          
 Hardcover 
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Description

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 Misérables 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(s): Harold Bloom
Publication year: 2020
Publication date: 2020-11-24
Pages: 544
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780525657262
Dimensions: 6.53 x 1.53 x 9.53 in
Weight: 2.25 lb
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread cover image

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

$35.00