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Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into... read more
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- Hedda Gabler
- Borges
- Emma
- Whitman
- Henry James
- Don Quixote
- Cervantes
- Faulkner
- Shakespeare
- Proust
- Milton
- Osmond
- Ellison
- Emily Dickinson
- Mccarthy
- Pynchon
- Thomas Mann
- Chekhov
- Cleopatra
- Gina
- Jane Austen
- Glanton
- Raskolnikov
- Kasyan
- Isabel
- Judge Holden
- Wordsworth
- Falstaff
- Fabrice
- Tennyson
- Oedipa
- Rinehart
- Sancho
- Morrison
- Gurov
- Chelchov
- Harry
- Dostoevslcy
- Housman
- Algernon
- Nabokov
- William Blake
- Ishmael
- Tom O'bedlam
First Sentence edit
The Irish writer Frank O'Connor celebrated the short story in his Lonely Voice, believing that it dealt best with isolated individuals, particularly those upon society's fringes.
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- Harold Bloom (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 2000
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Page Count: 283
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Publication Date: 2000
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Page Count: 283
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- Dewey: 801.9
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Semiotics
- Books › Reference › Words & Language › Linguistics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Literacy
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Reference
- Books › Nonfiction › Education › Literacy
- Books › Health, Mind & Body
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