How to read and why / Harold Bloom
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- 1955214
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- Author:
- Bloom, Harold
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- New York : Scribner, 2000
- 283 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684859068
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- Preface
- Prologue: Why Read?
- I. Short Stories
- Introduction
- Ivan Turgenev
- "Bezhin Lea"
- "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands"
- Anton Chekhov
- "The Kiss"
- "The Student"
- "The Lady with the Dog"
- Guy de Maupassant
- "Madame Tellier's Establishment"
- "The Horla"
- Ernest Hemingway
- "Hills Like White Elephants"
- "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
- "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
- "A Sea Change"
- Flannery O'Connor
- "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
- "Good Country People"
- "A View of the Woods"
- Vladimir Nabokov
- "The Vane Sisters"
- Jorge Luis Borges
- "Tln̲, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius"
- Tommaso Landolfi
- "Gogol's Wife"
- Italo Calvino
- Invisible Cities
- Summary Observations II. Poems
- Introduction
- Housman, Blake, Landor, and Tennyson
- A. E. Housman
- "Into My Heart an Air That Kills"
- William Blake
- "The Sick Rose"
- Walter Savage Landor
- "On His Seventy-fifth Birthday"
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- "The Eagle"
- "Ulysses"
- Robert Browning
- "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
- Walt Whitman
- Song of Myself
- Dickinson, Bron,︠ Popular Ballads, and "Tom O'Bedlam"
- Emily Dickinson
- Poem 1260, "Because That You Are Going"
- Emily Bront ︠
- "Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning"
- Popular Ballads
- "Sir Patrick Spence"
- "The Unquiet Grave"
- Anonymous
- "Tom O'Bedlam"
- William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 121, "'Tis Better to Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed"
- Sonnet 129, "Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame"
- Sonnet 144, "Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair"
- John Milton
- Paradise Lost
- William Wordsworth
- "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
- "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Shelley and Keats
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Triumph of Life
- John Keats
- "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
- Summary Observations III. Novels, Part I
- Introduction
- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
- Jane Austen: Emma
- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
- Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
- Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time
- Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Summary Observations
- IV. Plays
- Introduction
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
- Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Summary Observations
- V. Novels, Part II
- Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
- William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
- Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts
- Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot
- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
- Summary Observations
- Epilogue: Completing the Work.
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