Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Signed First Edition)

Harold Bloom

ISBN 10: 1573222844 / ISBN 13: 9781573222846

Published by Riverhead Books (Penguin), New York, 2004

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($24.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Front board is very slightly bowed, on an otherwise beautiful copy. One dog-eared page. A small part of front pastedown cut (as pictured-- probably printing error). This copy has been SIGNED and warmly inscribed to "Derek" (almost certainly Derek Walcott) by Bloom on the title page (as pictured). F2940.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Riverhead Books (Penguin), New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573222844
• ISBN 13: 9781573222846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions
  • Signed Nonfiction
  • Association Copies

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.