Book of Numbers / Don Quixote / Joshua Cohen. 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 the 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 -- Our Mutual Friend / Charles Dickens -- Madam Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Les Misérables / Victor Hugo -- A Sportsman's Notebook / Ivan Turgenev -- First Love / Ivan Turgenev -- The Cossacks / Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Hadji Murat / Leo Tolstoy -- The Return of the Native / Thomas Hardy -- The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Princess Casamassima / Henry James -- The Ambassadors / Henry James -- Nostromo / Joseph Conrad -- The Secret Agent / Joseph Conrad -- Under Western Eyes / Joseph Conrad -- The Reef / Edith Wharton -- The Rainbow / D. H. Lawrence -- Women in Love / D. H. Lawrence -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- The Magic Mountain / Thomas Mann -- To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf -- In Search of Lost Time / Marcel Proust -- The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov -- Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- The Death of the Heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Dispossessed / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Loser / Thomas Bernhard -- Blood Meridian / Cormac McCarthy -- The Rings of Saturn / W. G. Sebald -- Book of Numbers / Joshua Cohen.
Summary:
Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic--gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from "Don Quivote" to "Book of numbers"; from "Wuthering Heights" to "Absalom, Absalom!"; from "Les Misérables" to "Blood meridian"; from "Vanity fair" to "Invisible man". Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald. Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding novels with new intimacy.
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