Saturday, July 11, 2009

10 Books A Day: #79


Longitude...Dava Sobel...Penguin

The Overcoat And Other Short Stories...Nikolai Gogol...Dover

Yeats...Harold Bloom...Oxford University Press

Chaucer...Peter Ackroyd...Vintage

Collected Short Stories...Robert Graves...Penguin

A Collection Of Essays...George Orwell...Harcourt

Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey On Edward Gorey...ed. Karen Wilkin...Harcourt
Don Quixote De La Mancha...Miguel De Cervantes...Random House

Teller Of Tales: The Life Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...Daniel Stashower...Henry Holt

Moab Is My Washpot...Stephen Fry...Random House

Genius: A Mosaic Of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds...Harold Bloom...Warner Books

The Western Canon: The Books And School Of The Ages...Harold Bloom...Riverhead Books


The books by Harold Bloom are a legacy from my brother Mike; Bloom is a prolific and interesting literary critic who is fascinating and illuminating to read even when I don't agree with his conclusions. His statements are always worth considering.

Book Count: 1000.

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