Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

Bloom, Harold

ISBN 10: 1573222844 / ISBN 13: 9781573222846

Published by Riverhead Hardcover, 2004

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

Seller Inventory # DBV.1573222844.G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573222844
• ISBN 13: 9781573222846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Journeying from the Bible to twentieth-century writings, the distinguished literary critic and author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human explores the ways in which literature can transform and shape one's life, discussing such topics as the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, St. Augustine, Freud and Proust, and more. 75,000 first printing.

About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than twenty-five books include Hamlet; Genius; How to Read and Why; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; The Western Canon; The Book of J; and The Anxiety of Influence. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.