The Bright Book of Life Novels to Read and Reread

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, uncanny erudition, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to The 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, are planning to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding them with new intimacy.

ISBN:	9781984898432
Publisher:	Vintage Books
Imprint:	Vintage Books
Published date:	16 Dec 2021
DEWEY:	809.3
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	448
Weight:	380g
Height:	132mm
Width:	203mm
Spine width:	34mm

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