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The bright book of life : novels to read and reread / Harold Bloom.

Eguiluz, Federico, (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bloom 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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525657262
  • ISBN: 0525657266
  • Physical Description: xviii, 516 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
The lost traveller's dream -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- 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 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.

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Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Allentown Public Library 809.3 BLOO (Text) 34455006761429 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 809.3 (Text) 33062009367906 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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