Author explores Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the canon.

"Fake News". A pesar de estar tan en boga en nuestros días, Shakespeare ya era consciente de la utilidad de este recurso a la hora de destruir destinos y por ello lo empleó como una de las "estrategias del mal" con las que Yago se vengaría de Otelo, y que lo convertirían en el antagonista más despiadado. No en vano rivaliza en importancia con Ricardo III. Harold Bloom analiza la figura de un Yago resentido y envidioso, dolido por no obtener...

Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. El primero: Falstaff. Harold Bloom declaró sentirse especialmente identificado con Falstaff ("cuando era joven y estaba menos cansado, yo fantaseaba con ser Falstaff") y con su forma de amar la vida. No es de extrañar que dedicara, por tanto, el primer libro de esta colección a uno de los personajes tragicómicos...

Shakespeare invented characters in a new kind of way. He not only gave them personality and depth, he gave them life. Not a life that went simply from point to point, but one that developed rather than unfolded. In so doing, Shakespeare created characters with whom everyone can identify, whether the characters were kings and queens or fools and merchants. Renowned Shakespearian scholar Professor Harold Bloom presents Shakespeare's seven major tragedies...

"The Jungle , a novel by American journalist Upton Sinclair (1878 -- 1968), was written in 1906 to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants living in Chicago and similar industrialized cities in the United States. While his main goal in describing the working conditions in the meat industry was based on an investigation he conducted for a socialist newspaper with the goal of advancing socialism in the United States, most readers...

"A colossus among critics.... His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." -- New York Times In this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I End My Song , with selections from John Keats, T.S....

Collection of Emerson's published and unpublished poems, including his translations of poetry from other languages.

Hailed by Dostoyevsky as The final and greatest utterance of the human mind," Don Quixote constitutes a founding work of modern Western literature. Cervantes' masterpiece has been translated into more than sixty languages, and the novel's fantasy-driven "knight," Don Quixote, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, rank among fiction's most recognized characters. Their adventures have been interpreted for film, opera, and ballet, and they head a cast...