{"product_id":"the-bright-book-of-life-novels-to-read-and-reread-paperback","title":"The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerica's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this valedictory volume, 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 \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBook of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e; from \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; from \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e; from \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether 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 literature with new intimacy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHAROLD BLOOM lived in New Haven and was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, where he taught for over sixty years. Before that, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include \u003ci\u003ePossessed by Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Anxiety of Influence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Invention of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, and Mexico's Alfonso Reyes International Prize. He lived in New Haven until his death on October 14, 2019, at the age of eighty-nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767657103648,"sku":"9781984898432","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/36bbc871d2b954b00fcdcfadf207d2a8.webp?v=1780314536","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-bright-book-of-life-novels-to-read-and-reread-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}