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Toni Morrison's "the Bluest Eye"
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2009
521 kr
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The Bluest Eye is one of Toni Morrison's most powerful novels. The Nobel laureate's debut is the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she can resemble the children who live in a world that is barred to her. This guide to ""The Bluest Eye"" …
Fahrenheit 451
Inbunden, 2007
380 kr
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Comprehensive reading and study guides provide concise critical excerpts that offer a scholarly overview of each work, "The Story Behind the Story" that details the conditions under which the work was written, a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, and more.
Oedipus Rex
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2007
416 kr
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Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, ""Oedipus Rex"" is a classic Greek tragedy that depicts the struggle between man and fate. Oedipus' story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between sons and fathers, a theme that has lost none of its dramatic punch in the ensuing centuries. The …
Waste Land
Inbunden, 2007
380 kr
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Perhaps the most written-about long poem of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"" is a cornerstone of the modernist movement and deals with what was then viewed as the decline of civilization. Because of its changes of speaker, location, and time, as well as its numerous literary and …
Beowulf
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2008
393 kr
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Composed around 1000 CE, ""Beowulf"" is the longest-known poems written in Old English. Considered to be one of the great epics, the poem tells of the heroic deeds of the great warrior Beowulf, and contains both Christian and pagan symbolism. Students will eagerly explore the poem's influential …
Maya Angelou's ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2009
586 kr
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Maya Angelou's unforgettable autobiography, nominated for the National Book Award in 1969, recounts her struggle as a young black woman to overcome obstacles and realize her dreams. The new full-length essays in this title provide a comprehensive critical overview of this modern classic. This study …
Night
Av Chelsea House Publishers, Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2009
393 kr
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Night, a memoir by concentration camp survivor and Nobel Peace Prize - winner Elie Wiesel, is a key work of Holocaust literature. It bears witness to the horrors endured by a teenage boy whose freedom and family are forcibly wrested from him. This new study guide to Wiesel's moving story also …
Amy Tan's ""the Joy Luck Club
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2009
393 kr
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The Joy Luck Club explores the lives of the women in four Chinese-American families and the daughters who struggle to fulfill or reject the cultural and familial expectations placed on them. Residing in San Francisco's Chinatown, the characters reveal themselves through their stories to be …
Chinua Achebe's ""Things Fall Apart
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2009
586 kr
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Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This invaluable new …
George Orwell's ""Animal Farm
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2009
586 kr
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Tracing the rise of Napoleon as the leader of the barnyard animals and his ensuing dictatorship in the farmyard community, this classic satiric allegory serves as a warning to all societies as it depicts the slide from revolution to totalitarianism. Orwell transforms the seeming pastoral innocence …
To KILL a MOCKINGBIRD, NEW ED
Av Chelsea House Publishers, Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2010
430 kr
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This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. Each title features: concise critical excerpts that provide a scholarly overview of each work; 'The Story Behind the Story', detailing the conditions under which the work was …
RED BADGE of COURAGE - STEPHEN CRANE, NEW EDITION
Av Chelsea House Publishers, Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2010
567 kr
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2003, 12-15 år
393 kr
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A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Sidonie Ann Smith, Sondra O'Neale, Pierre A. Walker, and George E. Kent.
Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2003
393 kr
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Bloom's Guides - successor to the acclaimed Bloom's Notes and Bloom's Reviews Comprehensive reading and study guides with a selection of critical excerpts providing a scholarly overview of each work Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an …
E.L. Doctorow
Ragtime
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2004
393 kr
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Bloom's Guides - successor to the acclaimed Bloom's Notes and Bloom's Reviews Comprehensive reading and study guides with a selection of critical excerpts providing a scholarly overview of each work Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an …
Pride and Prejudice
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2004
393 kr
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In the character of Elizabeth Bennet, this comedy of manners produced one of the great heroines of English literature. Summaries with analysis review and explain the work, enhancing the reader's understanding and an annotated bibliography directs readers to additional materials.
""Chosen
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2004
393 kr
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Chaim Potok's The Chosen depicting the Jewish experience in America is examined with a brief biographical sketch to provide insight into the author's life.
Grapes of Wrath
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2005
393 kr
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John Steinbeck's compelling novel of social justice chronicles the suffering of in dust-bowl era United States.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Inbunden, 2006
393 kr
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This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. This Multigenerational tale tells the story of one family's struggle to cope as their once insular town faces the challenges of modernization.
Tale of Two Cities
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2006
380 kr
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Written by Charles Dickens for serial publication in 1859, ""A Tale of Two Cities"" is a historical novel that takes place in London and Paris in the years leading up to the French Revolution. Its first sentence, ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,"" is one of the most …
Glass Menagerie
Av Tennessee Williams, Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2006
380 kr
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Thomas Lanier ""Tennessee"" Williams won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945 for his ""memory"" play, ""The Glass Menagerie""; it was his first success. His protagonist, Tom Wingfield, recalls events at his troubled home in St. Louis, where his suffocating mother, Amanda Wingfield, …
Metamorphosis
Inbunden, 2006
380 kr
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The Metamorphosis, perhaps Franz Kafka's most widely read work, is the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find he has been transformed into a ""gigantic insect."" This new Bloom's Guide provides the ideal introduction to this symbolic tale, which has many …
""Odyssey
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2007
349 kr
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The second of the two great epic poems attributed to Homer, this poem takes place after its hero, Odysseus, ""sacked the sacred citadel of Troy"" and describes his perilous, 10-year voyage home.
Frankenstein
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2007
393 kr
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Perhaps best known for the horror films it has spawned, Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"", published in 1818 and revised in 1831, is a tale that warns against the ""advancements"" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution. This still-potent story is given new life with this latest inclusion to the …
Sun Also Rises
Av Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2007
380 kr
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Published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway's ""The Sun Also Rises"" quickly established the author as one of the great writers of his time. Based on Hemingway's experiences, ""The Sun Also Rises"" is the story of a group of American and English expatriates living in Paris who take an excursion to …
Jane Eyre
Av Charlotte Bronte, Harold Bloom
Inbunden, 2007
380 kr
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Written by Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847, ""Jane Eyre"" is the story of a governess who, despite her plainness, catches the eye of her employer, the mysterious Edward Rochester. The novel is considered a staple among works of Gothic and Victorian literature. This new ""Bloom's Guides"" …
