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A critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, from the author The New York Times calls "the most influential critic of the last quarter-century."In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes the reader from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job a...

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Provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. Each title features concise critical excerpts that provide a scholarly overview of each work, "The Story Behind the Story”, detailing the conditions under which the work was written, a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis.

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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 comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespear...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen depicting the Jewish experience in America is examined with a brief biographical sketch to provide insight into the author's life.

A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Sidonie Ann Smith, Sondra O'Neale, Pierre A. Walker, and George E. Kent.

This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces.

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This unique series is designed to inspire students to write compelling essays on great authors and their works. Written by established scholars and edited by Harold Bloom, each invaluable title will encourage students' academic inquisitiveness and sharpen their critical-thinking skills.

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Harold Bloom, named "The indispensible critic" by the New York Review of Books, returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot,...

Excerpt from Shakespeare's King Lear This play was first published in quarto form in 1608. In 1623 it was published in folio form. The time of the writing is located between 1603 and 1606. In 1603 Dr. Harsnet published his Declaration of Popish Impostures. It was from this work that Shakespeare took the names of the devils of whom Edgar speaks in Act III. In 1607 entry was made in the Stationers' Registers that the play was performed "before ...

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