Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. - Wikipedia
Works (50)

The Western canon

How to read and why

Shakespeare

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Bloom's Notes

Cat's Cradle (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)

Gabriel Garcias Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera

Modern Critical Interpretations. Lord of the Flies

The Best Poems of the English Language

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Elie Wiesel's Night

The anxiety of influence

Sandra Ciserno's The house on Mango Street

Hamlet

Cormac McCarthy's The road

Stephen King

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment

Elie Wiesel's Night

Blake's apocalypse

The American religion

Genius

C.S. Lewis's The chronicles of Narnia

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

The visionary company

Ursula K. Le Guin's the left hand of darkness
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How to read and why [lg. print]

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

The old man and the sea

George Orwell's 1984

Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street

Lesbian & bisexual fiction writers

Tim O'Brien's The things they carried

Anne Frank's the diary of Anne Frank

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
January 3, 2008

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Alex Haley & Malcolm X's the autobiography of Malcolm X

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Edgar Allan Poe

The Critical Perspective

Alice Walker's The color purple

Upton Sinclair's the Jungle

Franz Kafka's the Trial (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Joyce Carol Oates

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick