Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, author of literary classics such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, has passed away at the age of 88. Her many awards and honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Spotlight on Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, author of literary classics such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, has passed away at the age of 88. Her many awards and honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle.
If your patrons have expressed interest in exploring the works of Toni Morrison, 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 Morrison’s life and works, including essays from Facts On File’s comprehensive Critical Companion to Toni Morrison
- Criticism and analyses of works including Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye, and more
- Student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays about Morrison and her works
- Essay topics designed to inspire students to think critically, delve deeper, and ask (and answer) fresh new questions about Morrison’s works
- And more!
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Bloom’s Literature: Single Sign-On with Google Now Available
Google Sign-In can now be turned on to allow users to sign into the Bloom’s Literature database with their Google credentials, enabling one-click log-in access using the “Sign in with Google” button. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Single Sign-On with Google Now Available
Google Sign-In can now be turned on to allow users to sign into the Bloom’s Literature database with their Google credentials, enabling one-click log-in access using the “Sign in with Google” button. This option is turned off by default and can be activated by account administrators in the Admin Portal.
Google Sign-In is offered at no additional cost to customers. Users can also use Google Sign-In to easily access their personal accounts for Bloom’s Literature with their Google credentials.
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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. 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. There, they can access the full contents of more than 1,000 classic works of literature, most of which were selected from Bloom’s Literary Canon and include 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 home page.
Full-Text Literary Classics Include:
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- 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
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Beowulf
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin
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Bloom’s Literature: Thousands of New Entries on World Mythology and More
An enormous wealth of new content on world mythology and ancient literature has just been added to Bloom’s Literature. New Entries on Mythology Approximately 4,000 new entries on mythological figures, literary works, and topics have been added, all from two highly acclaimed sources: the Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition (which Library Journal described as “jammed with information and filled with both impressive scholarship and entertaining tidbits”) and the Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (which School Library Journal said “succeeded brilliantly”). Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Thousands of New Entries on World Mythology and More
An enormous wealth of new content on world mythology and ancient literature has just been added to Bloom’s Literature.
New Entries on Mythology
Approximately 4,000 new entries on mythological figures, literary works, and topics have been added, all from two highly acclaimed sources: the Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition (which Library Journal described as “jammed with information and filled with both impressive scholarship and entertaining tidbits”) and the Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (which School Library Journal said “succeeded brilliantly”).
New Videos
28 new videos from respected scholarly and educational filmmakers have been added, including:
- 20 titles in the Great Greek Myths series by ARTE France, including Antigone, the Woman Who Said “No”; Perseus, the Look of Death; and many more
- Three titles from the Clash of the Gods series by A&E Networks, including Odysseus: Curse of the Sea
- Five titles from the Invitation to World Literature series by Annenberg Learner, including The Epic of Gilgamesh: Invitation to World Literature.
New Literary Classics
Seven full-length mythology books have been added to Bloom’s full-text Literary Classics, including:
- Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Bulfinch’s Mythology
- Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa
- Myths and Legends, The Celtic Race
- Táin bó Cuailnge
- The Myths of the North American Indians
- Myths and Legends of China.
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Bloom’s Literature: New Videos—Everyday Use and More
New videos have just been added to Bloom’s Literature, including a three-part performance video and fascinating biographical discussions/interviews. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: New Videos—Everyday Use and More
New videos have just been added to Bloom’s Literature, including a three-part performance video and fascinating biographical discussions/interviews. The videos added include:
- Alice Walker: Everyday Use—This is a dramatization of Walker’s short story “Everyday Use,” a study in class differences and the reclamation of black history.
- Dalloway—Award-winning writer Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf’s classic work Mrs. Dalloway completely re-imagined what a novel might be.
- Reading Ireland: Contemporary Irish Writers in the Context of Place—Dr. Matthew Ryan discusses the lives and works of Irish authors John McGahern, Colm Tóibín, and Anne Enright.
- Alice Walker: In Black and White—Alice Walker explains what she calls the “womanist” perspective of The Color Purple and other novels. Part of the series In Black and White: Six Profiles of African American Authors.
- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket—This film biography of Baldwin’s life captures the passion of his beliefs with stirring excerpts from his novels and striking archival footage dating from the Harlem Renaissance through to the author’s commentary on civil rights to his writing retreats in Istanbul and Europe.
- Gore Vidal: My Life—This program, shot on location in his Italian villa, presents Vidal at his provocative best. Along with comments on the 9/11 terror attacks, the Kennedys, the Waco siege, and his correspondence with Timothy McVeigh, Vidal also discusses the early grounding in history and politics that influenced his work.
- Walt Whitman: A Concise Biography—This introduction to the life and poetry of Walt Whitman from the Famous Authors series begins by contextualizing the writer’s early life in 19th-century Brooklyn and Long Island, NY, and ends with him settling in Camden, NJ, where he reconnected with nature at Timber Creek.
- Marcel Proust: A Concise Biography—This program from the Famous Authors series introduces the audience to the high society and cultural advancements of Paris in which Proust lived from childhood on.
- The Glass Menagerie: Character Studies Conversations—In this program hosted by Eli Wallach, former cast members and directors of The Glass Menagerie discuss plot and thematic elements, the characterization of some of theater’s most memorable and enduring dramatic figures, and the era in which the play was written.
- Juan Goytisolo—in Spanish with English Subtitles—This program presents an overview of Spanish-born author Juan Goytisolo’s outlook on past and present social dilemmas and their connection with his self-exile from his home country.
- Susan Sontag—In this program, Susan Sontag, discoverer of camp and diagnostician of the intellectual and artistic ills of late-20th-century America, tells us of the difficulties of being a woman, a writer, and a sentient human being in this place and at this time—in the process describing her view of herself and the standards she has set for herself.
- Walt Whitman (from Films for Humanities & Sciences)—This program presents a unique literary biography, tracing Whitman’s childhood, various careers, and the evolution of the masterpiece that proved his lifelong work, Leaves of Grass.
- Alice Walker: A Stitch in Time—What were Alice Walker’s motivations in writing “Everyday Use”? In this program, the author discusses her short story with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White.
- Walt Whitman (from Annenberg Learner)—Brilliant readings of Whitman’s poems demonstrate his American vision and style and vividly convey their poignancy and sheer power. Whitman’s sources, including Emerson, the King James Bible, opera, and political oratory, are revealed.
- Hart Crane—Diverse locations and dramatizations of his life illustrate Crane’s poetry and his greatest work, The Bridge.
- Elizabeth Bishop—From childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, this program illustrates the geographic spirit of Bishop’s life and works with scenes from her poems.
- The Line of Beauty—This three-part BBC miniseries is Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel set in London in the 1980s.
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Bloom’s Literature: Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!
April 23, 1564, is believed to be the renowned William Shakespeare’s birthday. Shakespeare would go on to become one of the world’s most influential playwrights and poets, and his works are still performed and studied worldwide more than 400 years after his death. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!
April 23, 1564, is believed to be the renowned William Shakespeare’s birthday. Shakespeare would go on to become one of the world’s most influential playwrights and poets, and his works are still performed and studied worldwide more than 400 years after his death. Bloom’s Literature’s Shakespeare Center is an ideal, one-stop resource for students and educators celebrating the birthday of the Bard. In one convenient location, it houses a treasure trove of multimedia content on all things Shakespeare, including detailed analysis and scholarly criticism of his works; the full, searchable text of all of his plays, sonnets, and longer poems; performance videos; extensive background essays; research and writing advice; and more.
Highlights of Bloom’s Literature’s Shakespeare Center:
- Easy access to complete Shakespeare content: Every play is covered in depth, along with the sonnets and longer poems, providing a complete research and study center for students and a robust repository of content for educators to use for lesson planning, assignments, and classes.
- Extensive background material: Comprehensive essays and articles provide history and context to Shakespeare’s life, times, and impact—covering topics including society and culture in Shakespeare’s day, other writers of Shakespeare’s day, the history of the Shakespeare authorship controversy, and more.
- Coverage of each play includes:
- The full, searchable text of the play
- Analysis of key passages
- Critical articles by noted scholars, selected by Harold Bloom
- Introduction and background
- Detailed synopses
- In-depth character studies
- Difficulties of the play
- The play today
- Full-length performance videos and/or critical videos
- Images and illustrations
- “How to Write about” articles
- Essay topics/discussion questions
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Bloom’s Literature: Dig Deep into the Top 100 Novels of All Time
OCLC recently released “The Library 100: Top Novels of All Time,” a list of the 100 novels most widely available in libraries whose catalogs can be found via WorldCat. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Dig Deep into the Top 100 Novels of All Time
OCLC recently released “The Library 100: Top Novels of All Time,” a list of the 100 novels most widely available in libraries whose catalogs can be found via WorldCat. If you have readers who are eager to explore the best of the best in fiction, direct them to Bloom’s Literature, where they can dig deeper into these novels, along with thousands of other classic and popular works.
Through Bloom’s Literature’s overviews and synopses, literary criticism and analyses, entries on topics and themes, essay topics/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.
Some of the many beloved novels users can study with Bloom’s Literature include:
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Bloom’s Literature: Check Out the New Overview Video
Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom, Bloom’s Literature offers a comprehensive resource for the study of literature—but don’t just take our word for it! Our brand-new overview video gives you an up-close look at the depth and breadth of the award-winning literature database, including: The authoritative Sources page listing the expertly researched and written content in the database The easy access to the extensive range of books, images, videos, timelines, and other content types The easy-to-use Search and Browse options, including the tabs and filters to narrow down the results The “How to Write about Literature” page, offering specific, student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works of literature The Shakespeare Center, featuring a treasure trove of content on all things Shakespeare, complete with in-depth coverage of his plays, sonnets, and longer poems. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Check Out the New Overview Video
Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom, Bloom’s Literature offers a comprehensive resource for the study of literature—but don’t just take our word for it! Our brand-new overview video gives you an up-close look at the depth and breadth of the award-winning literature database, including:
- The authoritative Sources page listing the expertly researched and written content in the database
- The easy access to the extensive range of books, images, videos, timelines, and other content types
- The easy-to-use Search and Browse options, including the tabs and filters to narrow down the results
- The “How to Write about Literature” page, offering specific, student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works of literature
- The Shakespeare Center, featuring a treasure trove of content on all things Shakespeare, complete with in-depth coverage of his plays, sonnets, and longer poems.
Check out the overview video below!
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Bloom’s Literature: Celebrate National Poetry Month with Our Full-Text Poems
Bloom’s Literature features 2,600+ full-text, searchable poems. Each poem has a corresponding analytical entry in the database, allowing students and researchers to enhance their understanding of a poem’s power by reading the poem alongside criticism of it. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Celebrate National Poetry Month with Our Full-Text Poems
Bloom’s Literature features 2,600+ full-text, searchable poems. Each poem has a corresponding analytical entry in the database, allowing students and researchers to enhance their understanding of a poem’s power by reading the poem alongside criticism of it. This extensive poetry content makes Bloom’s Literature the go-to source for poetry assignments and projects and a great resource for National Poetry Month in April.
The poems are presented in an easily readable format and can be found 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 home page.
Ideas for projects, papers, and classroom use:
- Ask students to select a poem and “rewrite” or update it for today’s audience
- Use poems to illustrate or emphasize events in history, such as Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade” on the Crimean War, Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” about the Civil War, or Poe’s “The Coliseum” about ancient Rome
- Ask students to write an essay comparing and contrasting the way two poets have presented the same idea or theme
- Use the relevant Essay Topics on selected poets as starting points for papers and research, to spark discussion, as lecture launchers, or as assignments
- Ask students to read a stanza from a poem of their choice each day in April and to explain why they chose it.
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Bloom’s Literature: Publishers Weekly Content Added—4,000+ Author Interviews and Profiles, Plus Publishers Weekly Radio
In a major new update, Bloom’s Literature is now partnering with Publishers Weekly to offer more than 4,000 of PW‘s author interviews and profiles, from 1989 to the present. Read More ›
Bloom’s Literature: Publishers Weekly Content Added—4,000+ Author Interviews and Profiles, Plus Publishers Weekly Radio
In a major new update, Bloom’s Literature is now partnering with Publishers Weekly to offer more than 4,000 of PW‘s author interviews and profiles, from 1989 to the present. These articles, which can be found in the search results under the Criticism tab, cover authors including:
- The latest literary prizewinners, including Colson Whitehead and Jennifer Egan
- Major young-adult novelists such as Angie Thomas and John Green
- Important best sellers such as George R. R. Martin and Sue Grafton
- Poets including Tracy K. Smith and Anne Carson
- Noted nonfiction writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Sebastian Junger
- …and many more!
In addition, Bloom’s now offers more than 250 broadcasts of Publishers Weekly Radio, featuring audio interviews with famous authors such as Gay Talese, Buzz Bissinger, and Jacqueline Woodson. Researchers can now not only read about these great authors but also hear them speak in their own voices. These recordings can be found in the search results under the Videos tab.
No other literary database comes close to matching the multimedia content of the award-winning Bloom’s Literature. The new articles and broadcasts complement the database’s thousands of critical essays, author biographies, character analyses, full-length videos of classic stage performances and film adaptations of literary works, classic works of literature, discussion questions, full-length poems, essays providing guidance on writing papers, Shakespeare Center, and more.
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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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