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How to Read and Why on The Importance of Being Earnest : “Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World”How to Read and Why on The Playboy of the Western World : “George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.”How to Read and Why on La Belle Dame sans Merci : “John Keats 1 34 "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1 34 Summary Observations”How to Read and Why on Blood Meridian : “Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, which surely O'Connor would have admired had she survived to read it.”How to Read and Why on Moby-Dick : “Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is the indisputable ancestor of the six modern American novels I shall consider in this chapter”How to Read and Why on Ulysses : “Tennyson's Ulysses, after a lifetime of struggle with the sea god, was nor likely to yteld to any divinity.”How to Read and Why on King Lear : “takes its title from a song fragment sung by Edgar in Shakespeare's King Lear, act 3, as scene 4 closes”How to Read and Why on Hamlet : “from Shakespeare's Hamlet and Milton's Satan on through Romanticism, shapes both "Ulysses" and "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came."”How to Read and Why on The Magic Mountain : “Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain was widely received as a work of modern fiction almost comparable to Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's In Search of Lost Time.”How to Read and Why on Henry IV, Part 1 : “Sir John Falstaff, the star turn in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays, and Shakespeare's only cre ation who competes with Hamlet in popularity (Bloom refers collectively to both 'Henry IV' plays; canonicalized here to Part 1, where Falstaff is most prominent)”
Authors Harold Bloom's books mention
William Shakespeare (7): How to Read and Why mentions King Lear , Hamlet , Henry IV, Part 1 , Shakespeare's Sonnets , Twelfth Night , Troilus and Cressida , Measure for Measure Ernest Hemingway (6): How to Read and Why mentions The Snows of Kilimanjaro , Hills Like White Elephants , The Old Man and the Sea , The Sun Also Rises , A Sea Change , God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Anton Chekhov (4): How to Read and Why mentions The Kiss , The Student , The Cherry Orchard , At Sea Charles Dickens (4): How to Read and Why mentions David Copperfield , Great Expectations , Oliver Twist , The Pickwick Papers Jorge Luis Borges (4): How to Read and Why mentions Collected Fictions , Death and the Compass , The South , Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Alfred Tennyson (3): How to Read and Why mentions Ulysses , In Memoriam , The Eagle Anonymous (3): How to Read and Why mentions The Wandering Jew , Tom O'Bedlam , Sir Patrick Spence
Fyodor Dostoevsky (3): How to Read and Why mentions Crime and Punishment , The Brothers Karamazov , Demons Henry James (3): How to Read and Why mentions The Princess Casamassima , The Wings of the Dove , The Portrait of a Lady Ivan Turgenev (3): How to Read and Why mentions Sketches from a Hunter's Album , Bezhin Meadow , Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands William Faulkner (3): How to Read and Why mentions As I Lay Dying , Light in August , The Sound and the Fury Dante Alighieri (2): How to Read and Why mentions Inferno , The Divine Comedy Flannery O'Connor (2): How to Read and Why mentions A View of the Woods , Parker's Back Geoffrey Chaucer (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Canterbury Tales , The Knight's Tale Gershom Scholem (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Messianic Idea in Judaism , Redemption Through Sin Guy de Maupassant (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Horla , Madame Tellier's Establishment Henrik Ibsen (2): How to Read and Why mentions Hedda Gabler , Peer Gynt Jane Austen (2): How to Read and Why mentions Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park Nikolai Gogol (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Nose , Old-World Landowners Oscar Wilde (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Importance of Being Earnest , The Decay of Lying Percy Bysshe Shelley (2): How to Read and Why mentions Adonais , Ode to the West Wind Ralph Waldo Emerson (2): How to Read and Why mentions Experience , Self-Reliance Samuel Richardson (2): How to Read and Why mentions Clarissa , Sir Charles Grandison Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2): How to Read and Why mentions Kubla Khan , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Thomas Mann (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Magic Mountain , Death in Venice Toni Morrison (2): How to Read and Why mentions Song of Solomon , Beloved William Blake (2): How to Read and Why mentions The Sick Rose , Mad Song A. E. Housman (1): How to Read and Why mentions A Shropshire Lad C. S. Lewis (1): How to Read and Why mentions Mere Christianity Cormac McCarthy (1): How to Read and Why mentions Blood Meridian Cyril Connolly (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Unquiet Grave D. H. Lawrence (1): How to Read and Why mentions Shadows Daniel Defoe (1): How to Read and Why mentions Robinson Crusoe Don DeLillo (1): How to Read and Why mentions Underworld Emily Bronte (1): How to Read and Why mentions Wuthering Heights Emily Dickinson (1): How to Read and Why mentions Because That You Are Going F. Scott Fitzgerald (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Great Gatsby Fanny Burney (1): How to Read and Why mentions Evelina Francis Bacon (1): How to Read and Why mentions New Atlantis Franz Kafka (1): How to Read and Why mentions In the Penal Colony G. K. Chesterton (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Man Who Was Thursday George Bernard Shaw (1): How to Read and Why mentions Pygmalion George Eliot (1): How to Read and Why mentions Middlemarch Gore Vidal (1): How to Read and Why mentions Lincoln Gustave Flaubert (1): How to Read and Why mentions Madame Bovary H. G. Wells (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Invisible Man Hart Crane (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Broken Tower Herman Melville (1): How to Read and Why mentions Moby-Dick Homer (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Odyssey Italo Calvino (1): How to Read and Why mentions Invisible Cities J. M. Synge (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Playboy of the Western World Jack Kerouac (1): How to Read and Why mentions On the Road James Joyce (1): How to Read and Why mentions Dubliners Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1): How to Read and Why mentions Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship John Keats (1): How to Read and Why mentions La Belle Dame sans Merci John Milton (1): How to Read and Why mentions Paradise Lost Leo Tolstoy (1): How to Read and Why mentions Anna Karenina Lewis Carroll (1): How to Read and Why mentions Through the Looking-Glass Marcel Proust (1): How to Read and Why mentions In Search of Lost Time Michel de Montaigne (1): How to Read and Why mentions Of Experience Miguel de Cervantes (1): How to Read and Why mentions Don Quixote Nathanael West (1): How to Read and Why mentions Miss Lonelyhearts Nathaniel Hawthorne (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Scarlet Letter Oliver Goldsmith (1): How to Read and Why mentions She Stoops to Conquer Philip Roth (1): How to Read and Why mentions Operation Shylock Ralph Ellison (1): How to Read and Why mentions Invisible Man Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1): How to Read and Why mentions The School for Scandal Stendhal (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Red and the Black Thomas Browne (1): How to Read and Why mentions Urn Burial Thomas Hardy (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Woodlanders Thomas Pynchon (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Crying of Lot 49 Tommaso Landolfi (1): How to Read and Why mentions Gogol's Wife Virginia Woolf (1): How to Read and Why mentions How Should One Read a Book? Vladimir Nabokov (1): How to Read and Why mentions The Vane Sisters W. B. Yeats (1): How to Read and Why mentions Man and the Echo W. S. Gilbert (1): How to Read and Why mentions Patience Wallace Stevens (1): How to Read and Why mentions Of Mere Being Walter Savage Landor (1): How to Read and Why mentions On His Seventy-fifth Birthday Walter Scott (1): How to Read and Why mentions Redgauntlet William Wordsworth (1): How to Read and Why mentions A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal