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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,587 ratings — published 1994
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.15 — 212,672 ratings — published 1985
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,827 ratings — published 2000
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,683 ratings — published 1998
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.72 — 184,812 ratings — published 1930
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 983 ratings — published 2002
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.69 — 95,561 ratings — published 1966
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.56 — 609,337 ratings — published 1851
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 967,626 ratings — published 1815
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,052,265 ratings — published 1866
The Charterhouse of Parma (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,782 ratings — published 1839
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,387 ratings — published 1615
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.71 — 369,647 ratings — published 1856
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 865,575 ratings — published 1861
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,734 ratings — published 1973
The American Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.78 — 480 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.92 — 200,516 ratings — published 1952
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 918,930 ratings — published 1878
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.80 — 84,669 ratings — published 1881
The Return of the Native (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,199 ratings — published 1878
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.85 — 180,066 ratings — published 1667
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,116 ratings — published 1924
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,239 ratings — published 1853
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 82,370 ratings — published 1830
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,053 ratings — published 1850
Our Mutual Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.09 — 31,142 ratings — published 1865
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,034,342 ratings — published 1601
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 376,109 ratings — published 1814
Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,482 ratings — published 1997
Sabbath's Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,129 ratings — published 1995
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.79 — 47,691 ratings — published 1936
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.10 — 95,535 ratings — published 1972
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,776 ratings — published 1977
In Search of Lost Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.34 — 13,896 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 — 107 ratings — published 1987
Nostromo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.81 — 17,789 ratings — published 1904
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.97 — 104,814 ratings — published 1905
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,717,512 ratings — published 1813
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,561 ratings — published 1857
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,535 ratings — published 1955
Howards End (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.96 — 94,199 ratings — published 1910
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,816,804 ratings — published 1925
Jude the Obscure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.83 — 75,395 ratings — published 1895
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 4.15 — 764,827 ratings — published 1817
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,996,723 ratings — published 1847
Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,970 ratings — published 1852
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.84 — 300,302 ratings — published 1891
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.99 — 217 ratings — published 2015
The Woodlanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,722 ratings — published 1887
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harold-bloom)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,603 ratings — published 1886
“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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“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.”
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