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  • Till I End My Song

    A Gathering of Last Poems

    Edited by Harold Bloom ...
    "A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." — New York TimesIn this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Book of Life

    Novels to Read and Reread

    by Harold Bloom ...
    America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Frankenstein

    by Mary Shelley, Harold Bloom ...
    More than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.”For centuries, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Lear

    The Great Image of Authority

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century—an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare’s most tragic and compelling character, the third in a series of five short books hailed as Harold Bloom’s “last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination” (The New York Times Book ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tempest

    by William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom ...
    Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Living with Shakespeare

    Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors

    by Susannah Carson ...
    Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Julie Taymor on turning Prospero into Prospera, Camille Paglia on teaching the ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Best of the Best American Poetry

    1988-1997

    by David Lehman, Harold Bloom ...
    Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry itself has seen a remarkable resurgence in popularity and vitality, fueled by established poets at the peak of their powers and a new generation of daring voices. As we approach the millennium, now is the opportune moment ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Cleopatra

    I Am Fire and Air

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus Reviews*).**Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    by Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Possessed by Memory

    The Inward Light of Criticism

    by Harold Bloom ...
    In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Zakhor

    Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    “Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles

    The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

    by Harold Bloom ...
    “The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry."Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom’s ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD