Harold Bloom

Rudyard Kipling's Kim (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987)

Saul Bellow's Herzog (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988)

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987)

Virgil's Aeneid (Bloom's Reviews) (1997)

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Modern Critical Interpretations) (2002)

Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987)

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime (Modern Critical Interpretations) (2002)

Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club (2002)

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses (2003)

Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2003)

Toni Morrison's Beloved (Bloom's Guides) (2002)

This book has cemented my low opinion of Harold Bloom, with this sentence from his intro:Beloved divides many of my acquaintances who possess critical discernment; for some of them it is a masterwork, for others it is supermarket literature. I myself am divided: no character in the novel persuade...

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (2001)

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (Bloom's Reviews) (1999)

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987)

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (Bloom's Guides) (2004)

I read this in high school, 1992 I believe, and I really, really liked it. I couldn't tell anyone, though, because it was high school and all the cool kids were mad that Mr. Whittaker was making us read it. "Ugh, it's soooo, like, loooong" they said. "this is sooo gay! Like, gag me" they said...

Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2003)

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides) (2004)

Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts (Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005)

Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain (Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986)

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986)

Toni Morrison's Sula (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1999)

Richard Wright's Black Boy (2006)

King Lear (2007)

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1986)

Hamlet is often considered to be one of the greatest plays of all time. It is also one of the most discussed and analyzed pieces of literature ever. Figuring out where to begin researching it or even writing about it can be a daunting task. How does one trace the critical literature written about...

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (Modern Critical Interpretations) (2000)

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988)

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2008)

Cómo leer y por qué (2015)