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Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world’s most important literary masterpieces - Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work - The Story Behind the…
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This harrowing tale has held readers spellbound ever since it was published almost two centuries ago. This edition features a new Introduction by Clegg and an Afterword by preeminent literary…
Examines the most complex and memorable characters in Western literature - A selection of critical essays provides in-depth analysis of the character considered in each volume - A concise character…
Offers a biographical profile of the poet and provides analyses and critical views of his work, including The Drunk in the Furnace, For the Anniversary of My Death, and The…
Series presents critical essays reflecting a variety of important 20th-century criticism on major works. Each volume also contains an essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on contributing critics. Nathanael…
A critical overview of the work features the writings of Cushing Strout, David Holbrook, Kathy Miller Hadley, John J. Murphy, Clar Virginia Eby, and and other scholars, discussing the themes…
Award-winning poet Robert Hayden looms as one of the most technically gifted and conceptually expansive poets in American letters. Attending to the specifics of race and culture, Hayden takes up…
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Bloom considers poets Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridege, William Butler Yeats, and many others. Ages 16+.
From Arthur Miller to Tony Kushner, this volume chronicles the plays and playwrights that shaped American drama to the present time.
This continuing series will explore different diseases to show the science behind how disease-causing organisms affect the body. Microorganisms have plagued humans since the beginning of time, causing debilitating diseases…
Features a collection of essays from the 19th and early 20th centuries that paint a historical portrait of Charles Dickens.
Presents a collection of contemporary criticism and analysis of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world’s most important literary masterpieces. This Multigenerational tale tells the story of one family’s struggle to cope as…
This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world’s most important literary masterpieces. Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck’s dramatic tale follows two migrant workers pursuing their dream…
Tom Wingfield recalls events at his troubled home in St Louis, where his suffocating mother, Amanda Wingfield, badgers him to locate a gentleman caller for his sister, Laura, a shy…
Presents the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. This guide provides the introduction to this…
The second of the two great epic poems attributed to Homer, this poem takes place after its hero, Odysseus, sacked the sacred citadel of Troy and describes his perilous, 10-year…
Nineteen Eighty-Four paints the bleak picture of a society in which all information is controlled by the government, also known as Big Brother. This book is suitable for students interested…
Composed about CE 1000, Beowulf is considered one of the great epics, an Anglo-Saxon saga that relates the heroic deeds of the warrior Beowulf, who kills a man-eating monster Grendel…
Offers an inquiry into the meaning of American Dream. This play which won the author a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony award presents the lead character, Willy Loman (played over…
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre , published in October 1847, was an immediate success. It is considered a staple of Gothic and Victorian literature. This title places Bronte’s book in context…
Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath follows failed farmer Tom Joad and his family as they head from Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl to the promised land of the…
The Iliad attempts to define the qualities of the heroic character. This volume helps students find some of the leading critical analyses on this ancient work. It is suitable for…
Published in 1960, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, this work is useful for many middle and high school students. It includes a chronology of the author’s life and…
A Greek tragedy which depicts the search for self-understanding, and the struggle between man and fate. It forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between fathers and sons. It is…
Drawing on biblical symbols, Greek and Roman mythology, and English and Irish fairy tales, this book creates the enchanted setting of Narnia, a fictional world where magic meets reality. It…
A Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Marquez is best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera . This title presents…
Nineteenth-century novelist and short-story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne is a key figure in the development of American literature. The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables are cited among…
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of America’s most influential thinkers. His essay, Nature is considered to be the founding document for the Transcendentalism movement, and his influence can be seen…
Perhaps best known for the horror films it has spawned, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , published in 1818, is a tale that warns against the advancements of modern man and the…
Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, Oedipus Rex is a classic Greek tragedy that depicts the struggle between man and fate. Oedipus’ story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict…
Perhaps the most written-about long poem of the 20th century, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is a cornerstone of the modernist movement and deals with what was then viewed as…
Written by Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847, Jane Eyre is the story of a governess who, despite her plainness, catches the eye of her employer, the mysterious Edward Rochester…
James Baldwin was as well known in Istanbul and Paris as he was in Harlem. His reputation was made on incendiary and eloquent essays written and published to mass acclaim…
Initially known for her short stories and articles, Kate Chopin was considered to be little more than a regional writer. Published in 1899, her second novel, The Awakening, received little…
An allegorical tale of passion, adultery, guilt, and social repression, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter introduces readers to Hester Prynne, America’s first fictional heroine. This title from the Bloom’s Modern…
The second of the two great epic poems attributed to Homer, The Odyssey takes place after the Trojan War and tells the story of Odysseus’ voyage home to Ithaca and…
Hailed by writers and critics alike as one of the most important American novels ever published, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gave a distinct voice to American literature…
Written for serial publication in 1859, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that takes place in England and France in the years leading up to…
George Orwell wrote many essays and political pamphlets, yet most know him for his fable Animal Farm and novel 1984 . This volume offers commentary on Orwell’s political views, his…
Tennessee Williams is recognized as one of America’s greatest dramatists, and as an innovator of post-World War II theater. This volume from the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views series features essays…
Sylvia Plath’s short life and intense poetry continue to draw considerable critical and popular attention. This book offers readers fresh perspectives on a writer whose highly personal oeuvre fascinates even…
Composed around 1000 CE, this title is among the longest-known poems written in Old English. It tells of the heroic deeds of the great warrior Beowulf, and contains both Christian…
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , perhaps her most recognizable work, is a story of manners, courtship, and marriage in 18th- and 19th-century England. This volume presents a perceptive introduction…
Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God , a classic in the African-American canon, depicts a woman’s…
Presents the story of Celie, a poor, black woman who overcomes a life of abuse due to the support of the females in her life. This edition also offers a…
