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The Book of J by Harold Bloom 9780802141910
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141910Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint < -
The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060769666Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom 9780063452046
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller."An impressive work...deeply, rightly... -
Iago: The Strategies of Evil by Harold Bloom 9781501164231
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.71From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great... -
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem... -
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom 9780007292844
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Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom 9781501164149
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501164149Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint < -
How to Read and Why by Prof. Harold Bloom 9781841150390
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. ... -
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by Harold Bloom
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898432Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint < -
Mark Twain by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780791085691 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $4.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791085691Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint -
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme "Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to... -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.35"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and... -
Ulysses: Third edition with over 9,000 notes by James Joyce
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.85This third edition, newly revised and updated, includes comprehensive and all-new annotations (over 9,000 notes) by Joyce scholar Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin, and Marc A. Mamigonian and John... -
The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780300187946
Booksplease Price: $23.68A richly insightful reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterwork, published for the text's 400-year anniversary The King James Bible stands at "the sublime summit of literature in... -
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780060540425
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.62Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology... -
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an... -
Light In August by William Faulkner 9780099283157
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an... -
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.09The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and... -
God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion. From the... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition) by Geza Vermes
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Probably the most important archaeological find in history ... Vermes' translations are a standard in the field' Los Angeles TimesThe discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between... -
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.32WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque... -
Pale Fire: With an Introduction by Mary Gaitskill by Vladimir Nabokov 9781474620871
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'One of the greatest books I've ever read. Its heart is strange, but it is huge; let yours beat in response' MARY GAITSKILLPale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and... -
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll 9780140434910
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap' Ever since Lewis... -
The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, The Revenge for Love is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. A brilliant satire... -
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes 9781784878962
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.32'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben OkriWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the... -
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright Emma Smith 9780241361634
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.53A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the... -
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $12.37This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language,... -
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The... -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.41This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically... -
Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi by Henry Corbin 9780691058344
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $48.32"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition...Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism... -
New Poems Book Two by Charles Bukowski 9780753512579
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were kept by him and... -
Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman by Alvin Feinman 9780691170534
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because... -
The Best American Poetry 2020 by David Lehman
Booksplease Price: $20.80The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780300101058
Booksplease Price: $9.54The Annotated Shakespeare series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist "If any work deserves a student's closest attention, it is Hamlet... -
Long Day's Journey into Night: Second Edition by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9780300093056
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.26Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since... -
Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney 9780571101580
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense... -
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West 9780811220934
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.95Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column in the depths of the Great... -
Walt Whitman: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #4) by Walt Whitman 9781931082327
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.35American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries,...