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?in "a masterfully perceptive...

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century?an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare's most tragic and compelling...

Shakespeare. Die Erfindung des Menschlichen. Zweites Buch: Tragödien und späte Romanzen

While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of...

Die Palme im Westen: Muslime, Juden und Christen im alten Andalusien

"A Tale of Two Cities: Bloom's Reviews" von Harold Bloom ist ein umfassender Forschungs- und Studienführer zu Charles Dickens' klassischem Roman "A Tale of Two Cities". In diesem Buch bietet Bloom eine tiefgehende Analyse und...

"Tony Kushner (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)" ist eine kritische Sammlung, herausgegeben von Harold Bloom, die sich eingehend mit dem Werk und der Bedeutung des amerikanischen Dramatikers Tony Kushner auseinandersetzt. Das Buch bietet...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS Hailed as "the indispensable critic" by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom-New York Times bestselling writer and...

"George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (Bloom's Reviews)" von Harold Bloom ist eine kritische Analyse und Interpretation des berühmten dystopischen Romans "1984" von George Orwell. In diesem Buch bietet Bloom eine tiefgehende Untersuchung...

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"Heroically brave, formidably learned… The Western Canon is a passionate demonstration of why some writers have triumphantly escaped the oblivion in which time buries...

"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...