Novelists and NovelsFrom Daniel Defoe to Philip Roth, from Charles Dickens to Amy Tan, Novelists and Novels contains esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom's writings on the greatest novels and novelists in the Western tradition. Bloom's brilliant insights and lively discourse serve not only to illuminate, but also to inspire readers to turn again to our finest works of literature. |
Contents
Don Quixote | 1 |
Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders | 3 |
Gullivers Travels | 10 |
Clarissa | 22 |
Tom Jones | 28 |
Tristram Shandy | 33 |
Humphry Clinker | 38 |
The Vicar of Wakefield She Stoops to Conquer | 43 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God | 306 |
The Great Gatsby | 311 |
The Sound and the Fury Sanctuary Light in August Absalom Absalom | 313 |
The Sun also Rises A Farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea | 327 |
Lolita | 339 |
Mans Fate | 343 |
The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men | 347 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 353 |
Evelina | 48 |
Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion | 51 |
The Red and the Black | 72 |
Frankenstein | 77 |
Pere Goriot | 87 |
The Scarlet Letter | 91 |
A Tale of Two Cities Great Expections David Copperfield Hard Times Bleak House | 93 |
Barchester Towers The Warden | 119 |
Jane Eyre | 125 |
Wuthering Heights | 131 |
Daniel Deronda The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Middlemarch | 137 |
Madame Bovary | 151 |
Crime and Punishment | 155 |
Anna Karenina | 163 |
Huckleberry Finn | 169 |
Therese Raquin | 171 |
The Mayor of Casterbridge | 173 |
The Ambassadors The Portrait of a Lady | 192 |
The Awakening | 204 |
Lord Jim Heart of DarknessNostromo | 210 |
Age of Innocence The Custom of the Country Ethan Frome | 220 |
Kim | 228 |
My Antonia A Lost Lady | 235 |
Steppenwolf Magister Ludi | 240 |
The Jungle | 242 |
The Red Badge of CourageMaggie | 245 |
Howards End A Passage to India | 249 |
The Man Without Qualities | 259 |
Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse | 262 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 269 |
The Castle The Trial | 272 |
Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love | 294 |
Arrowsmith Babbitt | 302 |
1984 Animal Farm | 363 |
Brighton Rock | 372 |
All the Kings Men | 380 |
Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable | 387 |
Native Son | 393 |
Lord of the Flies | 399 |
The Stranger The Plague | 401 |
The Fixer The Tenants | 408 |
The Invisible Man | 412 |
Herzog | 418 |
The Moviegoer | 426 |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | 433 |
The Enderby Cycle Nothing Like the Sun | 438 |
The Good Apprentice | 445 |
The Recognitions | 452 |
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ | 455 |
Ancient Evenings | 476 |
The Fire Next Time The Price of the Ticket Go Tell It On the Mountain | 482 |
The Violent Bear It Away | 491 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude Life in the Time of Cholera | 500 |
The Left Hand of Darkness | 505 |
Sula The Bluest Eye Beloved | 515 |
The Zukerman tetralogy Portnoys Compliant | 524 |
Blood Meridian | 532 |
White Noise Underworld | 540 |
Gravitys Rainbow | 547 |
The New York Trilogy | 557 |
The Joy Luck Club | 559 |
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About the Author | 588 |
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