NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading listit is a heroically brave, formidably learned defense of the great works of literature that comprise the ...
Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in ...
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
Discusses the writing of Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller. Includes critical essays on the play and a brief biography of the author.
Acting as a study guide, this book features the important critical interpretations of the horror master's work.
Presents a collection of critical essays discussing Tolkien's epic fantasy.
Twins Viola and Sebastian are shipwrecked.
" -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare.
Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.
This collection of inter-related stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909.