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Two from Bloom, what to read and how to do it...
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Harold Bloom
Berkeley Softcover 560pp 15.00
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America's preeminent literary critic, who opened new fields of thought about literature in The Anxiety of Influence and The Book of J, takes on those books essential to our literary heritage. Bloom endeavors to isolate the qualities that make 26 chosen writers--including Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Freud, and Whitman--so essential to us today.
How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom
Simon & Schuster Softcover 288pp 15.00
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"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.
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