Harold Bloom
The Western Canon
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poor narrartor
- By L M on 26-03-23
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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The Bright Book of Life
- Novels to Read and Reread
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 22 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom — who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic — gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel....
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The Bright Book of Life
- Novels to Read and Reread
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 22 hrs
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon...
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2 out of 5 stars
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Atrocious sound quality
- By Chris and Alison on 27-10-19
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello....
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
- The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 2
The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry....
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
- The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-10-20
- Language: English
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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world....
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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a huge amount of insight
- By Lex on 28-12-23
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-01-19
- Language: English
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Ruin the Sacred Truths
- Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Mort Crim
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 2
Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett....
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Ruin the Sacred Truths
- Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
- Narrated by: Mort Crim
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-09-10
- Language: English
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