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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra--one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history--and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most int ...Show more
Cleopatra - I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history-and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is the lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascin ...Show more
Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of ...Show more
Lear: The Great Image of Authority by Harold Bloom
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping ...Show more
Possessed by Memory - The Inward Light of Criticism by Harold Bloom
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.'" --The Christian S ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays. How to un ...Show more
Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, ...Show more
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles - The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death (HB) by Harold Bloom
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can." (p. 13) The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on th ...Show more
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, h ...Show more
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by HAROLD BLOOM
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold ...Show more
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