Series

Modern critical interpretations

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10 books here

Publication order

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Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises · Harold Bloom

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Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the scrivener, and other tales · Harold Bloom

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart · Harold Bloom

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J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings · Harold Bloom

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter · Harold Bloom

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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights · Harold Bloom

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein · Harold Bloom

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Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie · Harold Bloom

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Lord of the Flies- William Golding · Harold Bloom

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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye · Harold Bloom