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Call Number: 809.3 Bl, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Bloom, Harold
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"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
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 -- Our mutual friend / Charles Dickens -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Les miserables / Victor Hugo -- A sportsman's notebook / Ivan Turgenev -- First Love / Ivan Turgenev -- The cossacks / Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Hadj Murat / Leo Tolstoy -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The princess Casamassima / Henry James -- Nostromo / Jospeh 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.
"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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: xviii, 516 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525657262
0525657266
SUBJECTS
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Best books.
Books and reading.
Books and reading -- United States.
Literary criticism.
Personal narratives.