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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Harold Bloom

Includes criticism and interpretation of William Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Persuasion, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and Bleak House, George Eliot and Middlemarch, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, James Joyce and Ulysses, Virginia Woolf and Orlando, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Fernando Pessoa.

GenresLiterature & FictionHistory & CriticismBooks & ReadingCriticism & TheoryMovements & PeriodsComparative Literature

592 pages, 4 editions

English edition · First published 1994 by Mariner Books · ISBN 9780063452046

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Editions

4 editions

English

  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages · Mariner Books · 2025 · ISBN 9780063452046 This page
  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages · Harcourt Brace & Company · 1994 · ISBN 9780547546483
  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages · Harcourt Brace · 1994 · ISBN 9780151957477
  • The Western canon · ISBN 9781573225144

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