The Bright Book of Life : Novels to Read and Reread
by
Harold Bloom
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1984898434
ISBN-13
9781984898432
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Imprint
Random House Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 28th, 2021
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 20.30 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticism
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America''s most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western traditionfrom Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Manin his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloomwho for more than half a century was regarded as America''s most daringly original and controversial literary criticgives 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.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloomwho for more than half a century was regarded as America''s most daringly original and controversial literary criticgives 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.
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