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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Harold, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Best books.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--United States.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xv, 516 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Garrison fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version:

Bloom, Harold. Bright book of life

Online version: Bloom, Harold. The bright book of life.

ISBN:

9780525657262

0525657266

OCLC:

1159653106