Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of essays by leading academic critics on the structure, characters, and themes of the novel, an early classic work on the lives of African American women written in the 1930s.

Features critical commentaries on thirty-nine authors of short stories including Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Henry James, James Joyce, Jack London, Shirley Jackson, and Katherine Anne Porter.

Contains selections of literary criticism written between 1813 and 1913 that look at the life, general career, and specific works of English novelist Jane Austen.

A collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.

In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, "Hamlet", the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on "Hamlet", as well as a biography on Shakespeare.

A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.

Contains nine critical essays that examine various aspects of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby."