Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. - Wikipedia
Works (50)

The Western canon

How to read and why

Shakespeare

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Bloom's Notes

Cat's Cradle (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)

Gabriel Garcias Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera

Elie Wiesel's Night

The Best Poems of the English Language

Modern Critical Interpretations. Lord of the Flies

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

The anxiety of influence

Hamlet

Sandra Ciserno's The house on Mango Street

Cormac McCarthy's The road

Stephen King

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment

Elie Wiesel's Night

Blake's apocalypse

The American religion

C.S. Lewis's The chronicles of Narnia

Genius

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

Ursula K. Le Guin's the left hand of darkness

The visionary company
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How to read and why [lg. print]

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street

The old man and the sea

George Orwell's 1984

Lesbian & bisexual fiction writers

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Anne Frank's the diary of Anne Frank

Tim O'Brien's The things they carried

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
January 3, 2008

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Franz Kafka's the Trial (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Alex Haley & Malcolm X's the autobiography of Malcolm X

Edgar Allan Poe

Upton Sinclair's the Jungle

Alice Walker's The color purple

Sylvia Plath

The Critical Perspective