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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 — 226,340 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 — 3,631 ratings — published 1994
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.69 — 98,636 ratings — published 1966
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.72 — 188,769 ratings — published 1930
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,965 ratings — published 1615
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,888 ratings — published 2000
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,711 ratings — published 1998
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,470 ratings — published 1851
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 993,723 ratings — published 1815
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,100,111 ratings — published 1866
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,001 ratings — published 1667
The Charterhouse of Parma (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,197 ratings — published 1839
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 879,729 ratings — published 1861
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,353 ratings — published 1952
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,588 ratings — published 1881
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.13 — 62,746 ratings — published 1924
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.71 — 378,722 ratings — published 1856
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,757 ratings — published 1973
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 989 ratings — published 2002
The American Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.78 — 495 ratings — published 1992
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,081 ratings — published 1997
Sabbath's Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,377 ratings — published 1995
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.16 — 129,567 ratings — published 1977
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 941,000 ratings — published 1878
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.11 — 117,185 ratings — published 1855
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,478 ratings — published 1955
The Return of the Native (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,658 ratings — published 1878
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,047 ratings — published -800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.50 — 350,188 ratings — published 1000
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,418 ratings — published 1749
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.08 — 160,831 ratings — published 1678
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.02 — 114,923 ratings — published 1853
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,947 ratings — published 8
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 84,507 ratings — published 1830
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,071 ratings — published -560
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 260,912 ratings — published 1850
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.81 — 217,441 ratings — published 1927
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,018,365 ratings — published 1859
Our Mutual Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.09 — 31,595 ratings — published 1865
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,062,603 ratings — published 1601
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.89 — 439,831 ratings — published 1603
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 382,470 ratings — published 1814
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.06 — 613,142 ratings — published 1871
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,766 ratings — published 1973
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,036 ratings — published 1997
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,733 ratings — published 1997
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,840,569 ratings — published 1590
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.78 — 48,622 ratings — published 1936
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.39 — 393,462 ratings — published 1880
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,502 ratings — published 1972
“Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.”
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“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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