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Harold Bloom Books
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.15 — 216,927 ratings — published 1985
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,598 ratings — published 1994
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,088 ratings — published 1930
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,847 ratings — published 2000
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,687 ratings — published 1998
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.69 — 96,708 ratings — published 1966
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.56 — 613,111 ratings — published 1851
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 975,412 ratings — published 1815
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,067,230 ratings — published 1866
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.85 — 181,513 ratings — published 1667
The Charterhouse of Parma (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,915 ratings — published 1839
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,574 ratings — published 1615
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 869,852 ratings — published 1861
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,315 ratings — published 1952
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 84,977 ratings — published 1881
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,982 ratings — published 1924
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.71 — 372,569 ratings — published 1856
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,746 ratings — published 1973
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 986 ratings — published 2002
The American Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.78 — 485 ratings — published 1992
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,745 ratings — published 1977
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 925,117 ratings — published 1878
The Return of the Native (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,367 ratings — published 1878
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,258 ratings — published 1749
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,781 ratings — published 1853
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,932 ratings — published 8
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 83,059 ratings — published 1830
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,449 ratings — published -560
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.04 — 257,409 ratings — published 1850
Our Mutual Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.09 — 31,289 ratings — published 1865
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,043,158 ratings — published 1601
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 378,141 ratings — published 1814
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.06 — 606,574 ratings — published 1871
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,693 ratings — published 1997
Sabbath's Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,224 ratings — published 1995
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.79 — 48,020 ratings — published 1936
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.39 — 382,534 ratings — published 1880
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,501 ratings — published 1972
Miss Lonelyhearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,052 ratings — published 1933
Hedda Gabler (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,269 ratings — published 1890
In Search of Lost Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,005 ratings — published 1913
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry & Belief from the Bible to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 108 ratings — published 1987
Nostromo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.81 — 17,876 ratings — published 1904
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.97 — 105,467 ratings — published 1905
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,756,966 ratings — published 1813
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.16 — 67,934 ratings — published 1913
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.11 — 116,203 ratings — published 1855
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,637 ratings — published 1857
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.87 — 939,340 ratings — published 1955
Howards End (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.96 — 94,562 ratings — published 1910
“As Raimbaut dragged a dead man along he thought, ‘Oh
corpse, I have come rushing here only to be dragged along by the
heels like you. What is this frenzy that drives me, this mania for
battle and for love, when seen from the place where your staring
eyes gaze and your flung-back head knocks over stones? It’s that
I think of, oh corpse, it’s that you make me think of: but does anything
change? Nothing. No other days exist but these of ours
before the tomb, both for us the living and for you the dead. May
it be granted me not to waste them, not to waste anything of what
I am, of what I could be: to do deeds helpful to the Frankish cause:
to embrace, to be embraced by, proud Bradamante. I hope you
spent your days no worse, oh corpse. Anyway to you the dice have already shown their numbers. For me they are still whirling in the
box. And I love my own disquiet, corpse, not your peace.”
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corpse, I have come rushing here only to be dragged along by the
heels like you. What is this frenzy that drives me, this mania for
battle and for love, when seen from the place where your staring
eyes gaze and your flung-back head knocks over stones? It’s that
I think of, oh corpse, it’s that you make me think of: but does anything
change? Nothing. No other days exist but these of ours
before the tomb, both for us the living and for you the dead. May
it be granted me not to waste them, not to waste anything of what
I am, of what I could be: to do deeds helpful to the Frankish cause:
to embrace, to be embraced by, proud Bradamante. I hope you
spent your days no worse, oh corpse. Anyway to you the dice have already shown their numbers. For me they are still whirling in the
box. And I love my own disquiet, corpse, not your peace.”
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“Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.”
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