{"product_id":"book-dspe","title":"The Bright Book of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerica's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded 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, from \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBook of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e; from \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; from \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e; from \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49326569423152,"sku":"BDdspe","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/220050-dspe-Square.jpg?v=1733640869","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dspe","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}