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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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Read Everything

    The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom

    by Harold Bloom ...
    A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

    by Harold Bloom ...

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How to Read and Why

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Narrated by John McDonough ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    "Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students intolifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic ... Read more

    $25.99 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

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Possessed by Memory

    The Inward Light of Criticism

    by Harold Bloom ...
    In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles

    The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

    by Harold Bloom ...
    “The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry."Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom’s ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Falstaff

    Give Me Life

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes “a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom’s imagination” (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—Shakespeare’s greatest enduring and complex comedic characters.Falstaff is both a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Man Who Read Everything

    The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin Feinman, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Iceman Cometh

    by Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom ...

    $10.99 USD

  • Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles

    The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

    by Harold Bloom ...
    “The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry."Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom’s ... Read more

    $31.99 USD