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John Steinbeck

Author: Harold Bloom   Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views (Hardcover)

John Steinbeck was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He wrote such classics as ""The Grapes of Wrath"", ""Of Mice and Men"", The Red Pony"", and ""East of Eden"". This title introduces a collection of critical essays about this author.

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John Steinbeck was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He wrote such classics as ""The Grapes of Wrath"", ""Of Mice and Men"", The Red Pony"", and ""East of Eden"". This title introduces a collection of critical essays about this author.

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Each title features:
- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world
- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study
- A useful chronology of the writer's life
- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

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Critic Reviews

“"The accounts offer students an opportunity to absorb serious analytical styles."”

"A publishing venture almost without precedent both in its scope and in the fact that it is guided by a single critical intelligence."
"Harold Bloom adds some fantastic critical literary guides, providing interpretations and issues that should reach a wide audience from adults to young adults at the high school and college levels."

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About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist, How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom be Found (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.

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Each title features: - A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world - Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study - A useful chronology of the writer's life - An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

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Product Details

Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Published
30th April 2008
Edition
2nd
Pages
176
ISBN
9780791097878

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