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Harold Bloom

Born

in New York City, The United States

July 11, 1930

Died

October 14, 2019

Genre

Literature, Literary Criticism

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Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies.

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	Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by Harold Bloom (Editor), Terry Southern (Contributor), David H. Goldsmith (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 29,476 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 4.43 avg rating — 7,558 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner 4.67 avg rating — 3,701 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human 4.03 avg rating — 3,479 ratings — published 1998 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages 3.86 avg rating — 3,210 ratings — published 1994 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Read and Why 3.60 avg rating — 3,396 ratings — published 2000 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aldous Huxley's Brave New World 3.87 avg rating — 3,070 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 4.26 avg rating — 1,765 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry 3.77 avg rating — 1,577 ratings — published 1973 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera 4.25 avg rating — 1,346 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bloom's Modern Critical Views (237 books)
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Bloom's Major Short Story Writers (29 books)
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3.82 avg rating — 332 ratings

Bloom's Classic Critical Views (29 books)
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Writers of English (23 books)
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Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages (19 books)
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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words

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“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

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“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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Norwegian wood. Il metodo scandinavo per tagliare, accatastare & scaldarsi con la legna di Lars Mytting

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La vita segreta degli edifici di Edward Hollis

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Psicologia delle folle di Gustave Le Bon

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Il passaggio di Venere: La nascita della comunità scientifica internazionale attraverso una straordinaria avventura astronomica di Andrea Wulf

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