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5) Thomas Hardy
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A collection of critical essays on Hardy, his novels, and poems with a chronology of events in the author's life.
6) Alice Walker
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Gathers critical essays representing literary discussions about Alice Walker and her work, including essays on some of her specific works, her achievements in the field of literature, and her treatment of gender, class, and race themes.
8) James Joyce
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With an introductory essay from Yale literature professor Harold Bloom, this volume contains a collection of the finest contemporary criticism on Joyce, plus a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life.This is an eBook
11) Henry James
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Bloom refers to Henry James as the major American writer of prose fiction, outshining his precursor Hawthorne, and his antithesis, Faulkner.
13) Don Delillo
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Don DeLillo is one of the most respected and widely discussed writers of the current age. His keen eye and incisive depictions of contemporary American culture have secured his place as a unique, yet serious literary stylist.
14) Franz Kafka
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One of the most influential writers of this century, Kafka's work, most notably The Metamorphosis, The Castle, and The Trial, did not gain widespread recognition until after his death.
15) Charles Dickens
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In recounting a childhood experience, Charles Dickens once said that he was “inspired by a mighty faith in the marvellousness of everything.” Later in life, this inspiration revealed itself in the literature he wrote and in the
16) John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck stands as one of the most popular and widely read novelists in America. The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962, Steinbeck wrote such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Batt
17) Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy's quest for truth transcended his roles as a philosopher, soldier, proprietor, and devoted family man.
18) Marcel Proust
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An avid critic and translator, Marcel Proust is best remembered as author of the semi-autobiographical long novel of French expressionism, The Remembrance of Things Past.
19) Thomas Pynchon
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Harold Bloom suggests Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece to date, though he calls The Crying of Lot 49 a visionary romance.