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In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato and Homer; Cervantes and... Read Full Overview

A critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, from the author The New York Times calls "the most influential critic of the last quarter-century." In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent... Read Full Overview

Bloom, the renowned literary critic, has launched another masterpiece that poses the age-old question from the Book of Job: Where shall wisdom be found? Arguing that reading itself is a quest for wisdom and that ideas are events, Bloom starts with the Bible, then moves through... Read Full Overview