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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100525657266

ISBN-139780525657262

eBay Product ID (ePID)2309638091

Product Key Features

Book TitleBright Book of Life : Novels to Read and Reread

Number of Pages544 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicComparative Literature, General, Modern / General, Books & Reading

Publication Year2020

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorHarold Bloom

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight32.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-014640

Reviews"Fresh insights and renewed joys... fervent... dedicated... [Bloom] candidly analyzes what he considers a novel's shortcomings and where he differs with other critics' assessments. [His] ardent celebration of novels is tinged with the inevitable losses of old age... Warm recollections of a singular literary life." --Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal809.3/923

SynopsisAmerica'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.

LC Classification NumberPN3491.B56 2020