“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.”

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Books by Harold Bloom

The Critical Perspective

1985

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Shakespeare

1999

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Bloom's Notes

1996

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1986

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Othello

2008

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