SIIA CODiE Award Finalist, “Best Source for Reference or Education Resources” category
The ComputED Gazette‘s Best Educational Software Award (BESSIES), “Post-Secondary English Literature Website” category
Library Journal Best Database, “Best Niche Product” category
“Recommended.”
Choice
“…highly recommended for the literature reference needs of…college students.”
Booklist
“The information is accessible and easy to understand…highly recommended.”
American Reference Books Annual
“For literary criticism, author information, and writing help…Bloom’s Literature…is key.”
Library Journal
“Searching is easy…Articles are long enough to provide substantial information…”
American Reference Books Annual
Bloom’s Literature: 2,500+ Critical Extracts Added
More than 2,500 critical extracts from the Writers of English series have been added to Bloom’s Literature. The Writers of English series includes everything from classic science fiction and fantasy writers, to modern mystery and suspense writers, to great African-American poets and dramatists, and much more. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: 2,500+ Critical Extracts Added
More than 2,500 critical extracts from the Writers of English series have been added to Bloom’s Literature. The Writers of English series includes everything from classic science fiction and fantasy writers, to modern mystery and suspense writers, to great African-American poets and dramatists, and much more.
These critical extracts significantly add to the award-winning database’s coverage of respected popular writers in fields like crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, thriller, and so on, as well as to its already robust coverage of great modern writers.
The types of authors covered in the recently added extracts include:
- African-American women poets and dramatists, including Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Phillis Wheatley, and Ntozake Shange
- Classic fantasy writers, including L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and Beatrix Potter
- Classic mystery writers, including G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edgar Allan Poe
- Crime and suspense writers, including Robert Bloch, Thomas Harris, Patricia Highsmith, Elmore Leonard, and Mickey Spillane
- Horror writers, including Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Machen, H. P. Lovecraft, and Richard Matheson
- Major African-American writers, including Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes
- Native American women writers, including Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Paula Gunn Allen, and Maria Campbell
- Science fiction writers of the Golden Age, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury
- Women writers of children’s literature, including Louisa May Alcott, P. L. Travers, Madeleine L’Engle, and Edith Nesbit
- And much more!
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Bloom’s Literature: New “Most Studied” Pages and More
Several popular features in Bloom’s Literature have just been enhanced, with a new look and new functionality that make the award-winning database even easier and more intuitive to use. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: New “Most Studied” Pages and More
Several popular features in Bloom’s Literature have just been enhanced, with a new look and new functionality that make the award-winning database even easier and more intuitive to use.
“Most Studied” Pages for All Indexes, Including Full-Text Poems Index, Plus “Quick Find” Search
The “Most Studied Authors,” “Most Studied Characters,” and “Most Studied Works” in the Author, Character, and Work indexes are now front and center and feature colorful images and illustrations. In addition, Bloom’s index of full-text poems now features a “Most Studied Poems” tab, allowing users quick access to the poems most likely to appear in their assignments and projects.
Browsers can still find complete lists of all items in each index by clicking on “All Authors” in the Author index, “All Characters” in the Character index, “All Works” in the Work index, and “All Poems” on the “Poems (Full Text)” page. In addition, each index now features a “Quick Find” search box to make it even easier for users to find content on the items they’re looking for.
Updated “How to Write About” and New “Discussion Questions” Pages
The How to Write About page now features a grid of Author images that each link to a How to Write About page for an author. Also, the Discussion Questions page lists authors alphabetically and now links to new Author pages that include a right rail containing a link to the Author Overview, biographical information on the author, and an image where available.
Enhanced “Literary Movements” and “Literary Themes” Pages
The Literary Movements and Literary Themes pages, accessible via the drop-down menu at the top or under “Browse Resources” on the home page, now have a featured topic that rotates through a list of five editor-chosen topics at the top of each page, presenting the best curated content right up front.
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Bloom’s Literature: New Full-Text Classic Works and More
A wealth of new content has just been added to Bloom’s Literature, including the following: New Literary Classics The full contents of more than 200 classic works of literature have been added to Bloom’s Literary Classics eBook Shelf, bringing the total number up to more than 1,000. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: New Full-Text Classic Works and More
A wealth of new content has just been added to Bloom’s Literature, including the following:
New Literary Classics
The full contents of more than 200 classic works of literature have been added to Bloom’s Literary Classics eBook Shelf, bringing the total number up to more than 1,000. These include:
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Europeans by Henry James
- Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
- Dangerous Liaisons (Dangerous Connections) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- And many more!
New Videos
Seven new videos have just been added, including three recent Stratford Festival productions—Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Adventures of Pericles—as well as critical videos on Jesmyn Ward, King Lear, Amy Tan, and Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf.
Researchers can find the Literary Classics eBook shelf and videos under “Resources” in the Browse drop-down menu at the top of any page or under “Browse Resources” on the right-hand side of the homepage.
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Bloom’s Literature: Continue the Conversation from The Great American Read
Are your students and patrons watching The Great American Read on PBS? As part of its celebration of the joy of reading, this eight-part television series presents a list of American readers’ 100 favorite novels. To build on the excitement and add to the conversation, direct interested readers to Bloom’s Literature, where they can dig deeper into these novels, along with thousands of other classic and popular works. Through overviews and synopses, literary criticism and analyses, entries on topics and themes, discussion questions, full-length film versions, and even the full contents of the books themselves on Bloom’s Literary Classics eBook shelf, users can explore their favorite works of literature in greater depth. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Continue the Conversation from The Great American Read
Are your students and patrons watching The Great American Read on PBS? As part of its celebration of the joy of reading, this eight-part television series presents a list of American readers’ 100 favorite novels. To build on the excitement and add to the conversation, direct interested readers to Bloom’s Literature, where they can dig deeper into these novels, along with thousands of other classic and popular works. Through overviews and synopses, literary criticism and analyses, entries on topics and themes, discussion questions, full-length film versions, and even the full contents of the books themselves on Bloom’s Literary Classics eBook shelf, users can explore their favorite works of literature in greater depth.
Just some of those beloved novels users can study with Bloom’s Literature include:
- 1984
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*
- Beloved
- Bless Me, Ultima
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Call of the Wild
- Catch-22
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Color Purple
- Crime and Punishment*
- Don Quixote*
- Frankenstein*
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Great Expectations*
- The Great Gatsby
- Gulliver’s Travels
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Harry Potter series
- Heart of Darkness
- Invisible Man
- Jane Eyre*
- The Joy Luck Club
- Little Women*
- The Lord of the Rings
- Moby-Dick
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Picture of Dorian Gray*
- The Pilgrim’s Progress*
- Pride and Prejudice*
- Siddhartha
- The Sirens of Titan
- The Sun Also Rises
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Things Fall Apart
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- War and Peace*
- White Teeth
- Wuthering Heights*
*The full text of this classic novel is available in Bloom’s Literature.
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Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Philip Roth
American author Philip Roth—whose works have won multiple prestigious awards for literature including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the PEN/Faulkner Award—recently passed away at the age of 85. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Philip Roth
American author Philip Roth—whose works have won multiple prestigious awards for literature including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the PEN/Faulkner Award—recently passed away at the age of 85. Many of Roth’s works revolve around Jewish family life.
If your patrons have expressed interest in exploring the works of Philip Roth, Bloom’s Literature can lend insight, context, and background. Students, researchers, and general readers will find enlightening and interesting information, with plenty of content for research papers, activities, and assignments, including:
- Biographies, topics and themes, and reference essays examining Roth’s life and works
- The full text of Facts On File’s comprehensive Critical Companion to Philip Roth
- Discussion questions designed to inspire students to think critically, delve deeper, and ask (and answer) fresh new questions about Roth and his works
- Criticism and analyses of works including Portnoy’s Complaint, Sabbath’s Theater, the Zuckerman tetralogy, Operation Shylock, and more
- Battle of Blood Island, a dramatic film adaptation of one of Roth’s short stories, “Expect the Vandals”
- And more!
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Bloom’s Literature: Catch Up on the Classics This Summer
Bloom’s Literature makes it easy to stay connected to literature during the summer. Whether your students are reading for pleasure or for summer courses, point them to the Literary Classics eBook shelf, where they can access the full contents of more than 800 classic works of literature selected from Bloom’s Literary Canon—including the essential works of the most important authors in world history and literature. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Catch Up on the Classics This Summer
Bloom’s Literature makes it easy to stay connected to literature during the summer. Whether your students are reading for pleasure or for summer courses, point them to the Literary Classics eBook shelf, where they can access the full contents of more than 800 classic works of literature selected from Bloom’s Literary Canon—including the essential works of the most important authors in world history and literature.
It’s easy to find these classic works: look for the Literary Classics eBook shelf under “Resources” in the Browse drop-down menu at the top of any page or under “Browse Resources” on the right-hand side of the homepage.
Full-Text Literary Classics Include:
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Beowulf
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- and hundreds more!
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Bloom’s Literature: SIIA Education Technology CODiE Award Finalist!
Bloom’s Literature was named a 2018 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the “Best Source for Reference or Education Resources” category. Finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the PreK–20 sector. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: SIIA Education Technology CODiE Award Finalist!
Bloom’s Literature was named a 2018 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the “Best Source for Reference or Education Resources” category. Finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the PreK–20 sector.
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for more than 30 years. The awards offer 91 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. Bloom’s Literature was honored as one of 152 finalists across the 39 education technology categories.
Educators and administrators serve as judges and conduct the first-round review of all education nominees. Their scores determine the SIIA CODiE Award finalists, and SIIA members then vote on the finalist products. The scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. Winners will be announced during a CODiE Award Celebration at the SIIA Annual Conference & CODiE Awards in San Francisco on June 13.
Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom, the recently redesigned Bloom’s Literature offers a comprehensive resource for the study of literature. In previous years, other Infobase resources have been honored as CODiE Award finalists, including Issues & Controversies, World News Digest, Today’s Science, Films On Demand, and Science Online.
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Bloom’s Literature: BESSIE Winner!
Infobase is very pleased to announce that Bloom’s Literature has won The ComputED Gazette’s 24th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES) in the “Post-Secondary English Literature Website” category. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: BESSIE Winner!
Infobase is very pleased to announce that Bloom’s Literature has won The ComputED Gazette’s 24th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES) in the “Post-Secondary English Literature Website” category. Bloom’s Literature previously won a BESSIE in 2015, in the “High School Literature Database Website” category.
The ComputED Gazette describes the BESSIES as awards that “target innovative and content-rich programs (including apps for iOS and Android) and websites that provide parents and teachers with the technology to foster educational excellence. Some selection criteria are academic content, technical merit, subject approach and management system.” Award winners are chosen annually and selected from titles submitted by publishers worldwide.
The ComputED Gazette has previously awarded BESSIES to other Infobase products, including World Religions (another two-time BESSIE winner), Science Online, Learn360, Issues & Controversies, Today’s Science, World News Digest, The World Almanac®, and The World Almanac® for Kids.
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Bloom’s Literature: New Shakespeare Performance Videos and More
New videos have been added to Bloom’s Literature, including profiles of legendary writers and interviews with them, plus productions of the world-renowned Stratford Festival. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: New Shakespeare Performance Videos and More
New videos have been added to Bloom’s Literature, including profiles of legendary writers and interviews with them, plus productions of the world-renowned Stratford Festival. The videos include:
- 2014 productions from the Stratford Festival of three of Shakespeare’s plays: Antony and Cleopatra, King John, and King Lear.
- Seneca: Moral Epistles—examines Roman philosopher Seneca’s particular brand of stoic philosophy and chronicles an extraordinary life that spanned the tumultuous reigns of Caligula, Claudius, and finally Nero, whom Seneca served as both tutor and counselor.
- Plutarch: Parallel Lives—in this program, Plutarch himself is held up for scrutiny, and he gives an extraordinary accounting of himself. Philosopher, priest of the Temple of Apollo, benefactor, and early advocate for the education of women, Plutarch practiced what he preached.
- Machiavelli: The Prince—examines The Prince, the treatise that gave birth to modern political theory, in depth, both from a historical perspective and in the context of Machiavelli’s own turbulent life.
- Thomas More: Utopia—follows the progress of Thomas More’s intellectual development, from his early friendship with the influential humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, to his rise to power as a member of Parliament and later chancellor of England, through his tempestuous relationship with King Henry VIII.
- John Locke—chronicles the life and work of John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist considered by many to be the first notable thinker of the Enlightenment.
- N. Scott Momaday—discusses what it means to a Native American to be an American citizen and reveals the artist, thinker, and imaginative creator behind (or perhaps at the core of) Momaday’s impressive and important body of work.
- Pocahontas: Her True Story—holds the legend of Pocahontas and John Smith up to historical scrutiny. Interviews with Pocahontas’s descendants provide a new perspective on the life and times of this revered Native American heroine.
- Chinua Achebe: Africa’s Voice—analyzes the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on world literature, as well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation of African writers.
- The Nobel Literature Prize Documentary 2009: Writing against Terror—The Literature of Herta Müller—features revealing interviews with 2009 laureate Herta Müller, location footage from her domestic and working life, and readings from her achingly honest work.
- Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest—examines the Nigerian Nobel Laureate’s actions and achievements through archival footage and insightful interviews.
- Myths and Legends of Lost Civilizations—recounts myths and legends from early civilizations—including ancient Egypt, Greece, South and Southeast Asia, and Andean and Central America—as it travels to ancient architectural sites around the world.
- Beowulf—examines Norse mythology’s greatest hero and the intriguing possibility that he may have been a real-life warrior.
- American Road—examines the mystique of the road in American literature, art, and music, using Walt Whitman’s poetry as a touchstone. The film looks at how the motif has manifested throughout the nation’s history, inspiring the creation of a lore in which ramblers, hobos, beatniks, and backpackers become iconic representations of the American soul.
- Introducing the Transcendentalists—host James H. Bride brings the language and lives of the Transcendentalists to realization by recognizing the context, expression, and foundation of the movement.
- The Broken Cord: Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris—in this program with Bill Moyers, authors Louise Erdrich and the late Michael Dorris explain how traditions of spirit and memory weave through the lives of many Native Americans and how alcoholism and despair have shattered so many other lives.
All videos are tablet/mobile-friendly and can be viewed either in their entirety or scene by scene using the convenient clips.
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Bloom’s Literature: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Bloom’s Literature has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Bloom’s Literature has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource.
Recent Updates and Additions:
- Relaunch: The entire Bloom’s database was relaunched in 2017, including a dynamic new design, many additional features, and lots of new content.
- Shakespeare Center: Added an all-new Shakespeare Center, providing comprehensive coverage of all Shakespeare’s works, with performance videos, criticism by important scholars, the full text of the plays, and more. Every Shakespearean play is examined in depth, with even more extensive coverage offered to the very greatest plays, such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It.
- Full-text, classic works: Added an all-new Literary Classics eBook gateway featuring more than 800 full-text works from major authors and frequently studied works, including Anna Karenina, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, the works of Charles Dickens, and much more.
- New search capabilities: Added new search and browse capabilities, including Search Assist technology and the ability to search timelines, plus dynamic citation capabilities.
- Literary criticism: Added the full text of 195 additional source books from our acclaimed Critical Companion and Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations series on major writers, works, and movements, including Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, George Saunders, A Christmas Carol, the Romantic Poets, and more.
- Full-length videos: Added more than 200 additional full-length videos including feature film versions of:
- Of Mice and Men and An Enemy of the People
- BBC productions of Wuthering Heights, Vanity Fair, and Emma
- Classic interviews with famous authors such as Arthur Miller, W. H. Auden, and Eudora Welty
- and more.
- Images: Added more than 5,000 new images of major literary authors and their works, with a particular emphasis on archival illustrations of Shakespeare.
- Authoritative source list: Added an improved authoritative source list, providing a complete inventory, by type, of the sources of the content in the database, including thousands of scholarly and critical books, hundreds of peer-reviewed journals and other periodicals, respected image and manuscript archives, famous film and television producers, and more.
- New features and functionality: Added Google Translate, Read Aloud, support for Google Sign-In, Save to Google Drive, and Share to Google Classroom.
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Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Ursula K. Le Guin
American science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin recently passed away at the age of 88. Literary critic Harold Bloom once said of Le Guin that she “raised fantasy into high literature” and that “no one else now among us matches her at rendering freely ‘that image of the thing I cannot see.’ ” If your patrons have expressed interest in exploring Le Guin’s works, Bloom’s Literature can lend insight, context, and background. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Ursula K. Le Guin
American science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin recently passed away at the age of 88. Literary critic Harold Bloom once said of Le Guin that she “raised fantasy into high literature” and that “no one else now among us matches her at rendering freely ‘that image of the thing I cannot see.’ ”
If your patrons have expressed interest in exploring Le Guin’s works, Bloom’s Literature can lend insight, context, and background. Students, researchers, and general readers will find enlightening and interesting information, with plenty of content for research papers, activities, and assignments, including:
- Biographies and reference essays examining Le Guin’s life and works
- Topics, themes, and discussion questions about her works
- Criticism and analyses of works including The Left Hand of Darkness, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” and more
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Bloom’s Literature: New Videos Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that new videos have been added to Bloom’s Literature, including Olivier’s As You Like It, a classic full-length adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy from 1936, starring Sir Laurence Olivier as Orlando. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: New Videos Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that new videos have been added to Bloom’s Literature, including Olivier’s As You Like It, a classic full-length adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy from 1936, starring Sir Laurence Olivier as Orlando.
Other videos that have been added include:
- The York Mystery Plays: The Death of Christ—a production that is part of the historic 1998 staging of the Corpus Christi Cycle in York, England, capturing the majesty and color of the original 14th- to 16th-century plays.
- The Many Faces of Borges—a birthday tribute to the then-80-year-old short story writer, poet, essayist, and philosopher.
- García Lorca: A Murder in Granada—the authoritative film biography of García Lorca, containing all the family memorabilia, his drawings and paintings, and the only remaining footage of the poet himself.
- Gabriel García Márquez: Magical Realism—delves into the world of One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch, where historical riots and levitating grandmothers appear to be equally real (or unreal).
All videos are tablet/mobile-friendly and can be viewed either in their entirety or scene by scene using the convenient clips.
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Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro just won 2017’s Nobel Prize in Literature. If your patrons have expressed interest in exploring Ishiguro’s works, Bloom’s Literature can lend insight, context, and background. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro just won 2017’s Nobel Prize in Literature. If your patrons have expressed interest in exploring Ishiguro’s works, Bloom’s Literature can lend insight, context, and background. Students, researchers, and general readers will find enlightening and interesting information, with plenty of content for research papers, activities, and assignments, including:
- A biography of Ishiguro
- Reference essays examining Ishiguro’s life and works
- Criticism, overviews, synopses, analyses, and topics and themes of selected works, including The Remains of the Day, An Artist of the Floating World, and “A Family Supper.”
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