TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom,Harold
TI  - The bright book of life: novels to read and reread 
SN  - 9780525657262
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Best books
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Personal narratives
N1  - "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso; The lost traveller's dream --; Don Quixote; Miguel de Cervantes --; Clarissa; Samuel Richardson --; Tom Jones; Henry Fielding --; Pride and prejudice; Jane Austen --; Emma; Jane Austen --; Persuasion; Jane Austen --; I promessi sposi (the bethrothed); Alessandro Manzoni --; The red and black; Stendhal --; The charterhouse of Parma; Stendhal --; The vautrin saga: old goriot, lost illusions, the splendor and misery of the courtesans; Honoré de Balzac --; The captain's daughter; Alexander Pushkin --; Wuthering heights; Emily Brontë --; Vanity fair; William Makepeace Thackeray --; Moby-Dick; Herman Melville --; Bleak house; Charles Dickens
N2  - "In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"--; Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works of fiction that span the Western canon. While considering each novels' strengths and shortcomings,  he also explains where and why he differs with other critics' assessments. In doing so, he guides readers to a new understanding of the novels, and in the importance and power of fiction.  -- adapted from jacket and from reviews on Amazon
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