The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Harold Bloom
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A study of twenty-six canonical writers details the qualities that make them literary essentials, and includes Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Beckett, Tolstoy, Freud, Molie+a6re, and others. By the author of The Book of J. 100,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
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