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Bloom's Major Short Story Writers are easy-to-follow guides to the most popular short story writers whose works are taught in high schools, colleges, and universities today. Each book is edited by the preeminent literary critic of our time, Harold Bloom, and contains a variety of critical views on the world's greatest short stories. These volumes are the perfect introduction to critical study of these important works by writers such as Mark Twain,...

Examines the life and work of twentieth-century American author John Steinbeck, featuring a biographical profile, critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas in his writing, a selection of critical essays, a chronology, and references.

This new series, edited by esteemed Yale University professor and literary critic Harold Bloom, is devoted to the world's outstanding novelists: Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Toni Morrison, among others. Bloom's Major Novelists provides an in-depth examination of several of each author's most significant novels, along with critical views by scholars...

Provides biographical information along with plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.