Modern critical interpretations
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Ursula K. Le Guin's the left hand of darkness
A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain (Modern Critical Interpretations)
A collection of critical essays on Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" arranged in chronological order of publication.
André Malraux's Man's fate
A collection of critical essays on Malraux's novel "Man's Fate" arranged in chronological order of publication.
William Shakespeare's Henry V
Spine title: Henry V.A collection of seven critical essays discussing Shakespeare's "Henry V."
Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy
A collection of eight critical essays on Dreiser's novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
William Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience
Spine title: Songs of innocence and of experience. Contains critical essays in chronological order of publication.
Ben Jonson's Volpone, or the fox
Volpone / William Empson -- The false ending in Volpone / Stephen Greenblatt -- Comic form in Ben Jonson / Leo Salingar -- Comic language in Volpone / L.A. Bea urline -- The double view in Volpone / C.N. Manlove -- Volpone / Anne Barton -- The play of conspirancies in Volpone / William W. E. Slights.
Sophocles' Oedipus rex
A collection of eight critical essays on the classical tragedy, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity fair
On Vanity fair / Dorothy van Ghent -- Art and nature / Barbara Hardy -- The reader in the realistic novel / Wolfgang Iser -- Vision and satire / Robert E. Lougy -- The triumph of Clytemnestra -- The comedy of shifting perspectives.
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
A collection of eight critical essays on Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations - Wuthering Heights
A collection of eight critical essays on Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights" arranged in chronological order of publication.
John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
A collection of essays on Webster's tragic drama "The Duchess of Malfi" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Leo Tolstoy's War and peace
Summary, A collection of seven critical essays discussing Tolstoy's novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels
Includes a brief biography of Jonathan Swift, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
A collection of seven critical essays on "Robinson Crusoe" arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Geoffrey Chaucer's The general prologue to the Canterbury tales
A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Dante's Divine comedy
A collection of nine critical essays on Dante's epic poem arranged in chronological order of publication.
Thomas Hardy's Jude the obscure
A collection of eight critical essays on Thomas Hardy's last major novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Thomas Hardy's The return of the native
A collection of eight critical essays on Hardy's novel "The Return of the Native" arranged in chronological order of publication.
William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Modern Critical Interpretations)
A collection of eight critical essays on Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" arranged in chronological order of publication from 1951 to the present.
Robert Penn Warren's all the king's men
Summary, A collection of critical essays on Warren's novel "All the King's Men" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Other Tales (Modern Critical Interpretations)
A collection of seven critical essays on Melville's shorter works of fiction including "Billy Budd" and "The Piazza Tales."
William Shakespeare's Henry IV, part 2
A collection of critical essays on Shakespeare's play "Henry IV, Part 2" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith
A selection of critical essays on Lewis's novel scrutinizing the medical profession.
George Eliot's Middlemarch
A collection of eight critical essays on the major novellas of James including "The Aspern papers," "Daisy Miller," and "The Turn of the screw."
Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders
Essays to help you understand and appreciate Defoe's novel, Moll Flanders.
Jane Austen's Emma
A selection of criticism devoted to Jane Austen's "Emma" arranged in chronological order of original publication.
Samuel Beckett's Endgame
Trying to understand Endgame / Theodor W. Adorno -- Life in the box / Hugh Kenn er -- Hamm, Clov, and the dramatic method in Endgame / Anthony Easthope -- Endi ng the waiting game / Stanley Cavell -- Beckett / Richard Gilman Symbolic struc ture and creative obligation in Endgame / Paul Lawley -- The play that was rewr itten / Ruby Cohn -- Endgame / Sidney Homan.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment
Includes a brief biography of the writer, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
William Shakespeare's The Tempest
A collection of eight critical essays on Shakespeare's romance, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Henry James's Daisy Miller, the Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales
A collection of eight critical essays on the major novellas of James including "The Aspern papers," "Daisy Miller," and "The Turn of the screw."
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Bloom's Notes
Summary, Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Sigmund Freud's The interpretation of dreams
The essays in this volume were selected to present the widest range of perspectives, drawing on contributors from a variety of disciplines.
The Old Man and the Sea
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
Shakespeare's sonnets
A collection of six critical essays on the sonnets of Shakespeare, arranged in chronological order of original publication.
The Tales of Poe
A collection of critical essays on Poe's tales of horror arranged in chronological order of publication.
Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
A collection of critical essays on Fielding's novel "Tom Jones" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Selections of literary criticism on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Homer's the Odyssey
A collection of seven critical essays on Homer's epic poem, arranged chronologically in order of their original publication.
William Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew
A collection of eight critical essays on the Shakespeare comedy, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
William Blake's The marriage of Heaven and Hell
Nine essays of literary criticism of Blake's experimental fusion of verse and prose.
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
A collection of critical essays on Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Arthur Miller's All my sons
A collection of critical essays on Miller's drama "All My Sons" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Rudyard Kipling's Kim
A selection of literary criticism of Kipling's adventure story which vividly depicts Indian society.
Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities
Presents twentieth-century critical essays on Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
Henry David Thoreau's Walden
A collection of eight critical essays on Thoreau's "Walden" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Geoffrey Chaucer's the Pardoner's Tale
A collection of nine critical essays on Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
A collection of eight critical essays on Conrad's novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.
James Joyce's Dubliners
A collection of eleven critical essays about Joyce's collection of stories, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.
Sound and the Fury (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Presents critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism for The sound and the fury.
Franz Kafka's the Trial (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
A selection of critical essays on Franz Kafka's novel "The Trial."
Geoffrey Chaucer's The knight's tale
A collection of eight critical essays on Chaucer's "Knight's Tale," arranged chronologically in order of their original publication.
Charles Dickens's Hard times
A collection of eight critical essays on the Dickens novel, arranged in chronological order of original publication.
T.S. Eliot's The waste land
Contains eight critical essays on Eliot's The Waste Land.