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Bloom, Harold, author.

The bright book of life : novels to read and reread / Harold Bloom.

First edition.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

xv, 516 pages ; 25 cm

"In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

Fiction -- History and criticism.

Best books.

Books and reading.

Books and reading -- United States.

Literary criticism.

Personal narratives.

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

The lost traveller's dream -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- Clarissa / Samuel Richardson -- Tom Jones / Henry Fielding -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- Emma / Jane Austen -- Persuasion / Jane Austen -- I promessi sposi (the bethrothed) / Alessandro Manzoni -- The red and black / Stendhal -- The charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal -- The vautrin saga: old goriot, lost illusions, the splendor and misery of the courtesans / Honoré de Balzac -- The captain's daughter / Alexander Pushkin -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- Bleak house / Charles Dickens.

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