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  • The Western Canon

    The Books and School of the Ages

    by Harold Bloom ...
    The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHarold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a "heroically brave, formidably learned" defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Till I End My Song

    A Gathering of Last Poems

    Edited by Harold Bloom ...
    "A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." — New York TimesIn this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Book of Life

    Novels to Read and Reread

    by Harold Bloom ...
    America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Henry the Fourth, Part One

    by William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom ...
    Series Book 1 - The Annotated Shakespeare

    $6.99 USD

  • Frankenstein

    by Mary Shelley, Harold Bloom ...
    More than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.”For centuries, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Lear

    The Great Image of Authority

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century—an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare’s most tragic and compelling character, the third in a series of five short books hailed as Harold Bloom’s “last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination” (The New York Times Book ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (LOA #368)

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    **At last, a major American poet collected for the first time in the sixth volume of the definitive Library of Edition of her worksIn his last book, Harold Bloom presents the earthy, surprising, and lyrical poetry of Ursula K. Le Guin**Ursula K. Le Guin’s career began and ended with poetry. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of her works gathers, for the first time, her ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Best of the Best American Poetry

    1988-1997

    by David Lehman, Harold Bloom ...
    Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry itself has seen a remarkable resurgence in popularity and vitality, fueled by established poets at the peak of their powers and a new generation of daring voices. As we approach the millennium, now is the opportune moment ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Living with Shakespeare

    Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

    by Susannah Carson ...
    Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    by Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Tempest

    by William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom ...
    Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Macbeth

    A Dagger of the Mind

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare’s most complex and compelling anti-heroes—the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, and Macbeth.From the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook