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_aBloom, Harold, _eauthor. _918318 |
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_aThe bright book of life : _bnovels to read and reread / _cHarold Bloom. |
250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2020. |
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_axviii, 516 pages ; _c25 cm |
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500 | _a"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. | ||
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_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_tThe lost traveller's dream -- _tDon Quixote / _rMiguel de Cervantes -- _tClarissa / _rSamuel Richardson -- _tTom Jones / _rHenry Fielding -- _tPride and prejudice / _rJane Austen -- _tEmma / _rJane Austen -- _tPersuasion / _rJane Austen -- _tI promessi sposi (the bethrothed) / _rAlessandro Manzoni -- _tThe red and black / _rStendhal -- _tThe charterhouse of Parma / _rStendhal -- _tThe vautrin saga: old goriot, lost illusions, the splendor and misery of the courtesans / _rHonoré de Balzac -- _tThe captain's daughter / _rAlexander Pushkin -- _tWuthering heights / _rEmily Brontë -- _tVanity fair / _rWilliam Makepeace Thackeray -- _tMoby-Dick / _rHerman Melville -- _tBleak house / _rCharles Dickens. |
520 | _aBloom 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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_aFiction _xHistory and criticism. _984264 |
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_aBest books. _927252 |
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_aBooks and reading. _98520 |
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_aBooks and reading _zUnited States. _967654 |
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_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft _9389769 |
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_aPersonal narratives. _2lcgft _9268853 |
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