{"product_id":"the-bright-book-of-life-by-harold-bloom-9781984898432","title":"The Bright Book of Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bright Book of Life\u003c\/em\u003e is America's most original and controversial literary critic's foray into the world of narrative fiction. Harold Bloom writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition, from \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e, in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who was regarded for more than half a century as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic—gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon. These range from \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBook of Numbers\u003c\/em\u003e; from \u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/em\u003e; from \u003cem\u003eLes Miserables\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e; and from \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599142699244,"sku":"9781984898432","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/466dd00bfae8cb17f14641c74b788896.jpg?v=1778037587","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-bright-book-of-life-by-harold-bloom-9781984898432","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}