The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread
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AmericaS Most Original And Controversial Literary Critic Writes Trenchantly About FortyEight 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 AmericaS 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 FortyEight Essential Works Spanning The Western Canon, From Don Quixote To Book Of Numbers; From Wuthering Heights To Absalom, Absalom!; From Les Misrables 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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