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Books in Bloom's Major Short Story Writers series

  • Raymond Carver

    Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Publications, Jan. 1, 2002)
    The ideal aids to all students, Bloom's Major Short Story Writers are definitive guides for independent study and a single source for footnoting essays and research papers. Each volume includes: Editor's notes and an introduction; Author's biography; Plot summary; Extracts and major critical essays; Extensive bibliography; Index of themes and ideas
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  • Shirley Jackson

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2001)
    Offers a biographical profile of the American author and presents critical analyses of her work.
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  • Italo Calvino

    Harold Bloom, Dave Kress

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 2002)
    Provides biographical information along with plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.
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  • Jorge Luis Borges

    Beth Beaudin, Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Aug. 1, 2002)
    Provides biographical information along with plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.
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  • William Faulkner

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 1999)
    Contains a brief biography of the author, plot summaries, excerpts from critical essays, and an index of themes
  • Sherwood Anderson

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Nov. 1, 2002)
    Presents plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2001)
    Presents plot summaries, characters, and critical views on the author's best known short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The minister's black veil," and includes biographical information.
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  • Katherine Anne Porter: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Nov. 1, 2000)
    Provides an author profile and critical analyses of plot, characters, literary style, and themes of Porter's short stories, including "Flowering Judas."
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  • Henry James

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2001)
    Provides a biographical profile of the American author and presents fifteen essays offering critical views of his work.
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  • James Joyce: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1998)
    A brief profile of Joyce accompanies excerpts from criticial essays about six of his major stories
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Publications, Feb. 16, 1999)
    Fitzgerald has been referred to as a 20th-century John Keats. This text examines some of his short stories, including "May Day" and "Babylon Revisited." This title also features a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a user guide, a detailed thematic analysis of each short story, a list of characters in each story, a complete bibliography of Fitzgerald’s works, an index of themes and ideas, and editor’s notes and introduction by Harold Bloom. This series, Bloom’s Major Short Story Writers, is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. The world’s most prominent writers of short stories are covered in one series with expert analysis by Bloom and other critics. These titles contain a wealth of information on the writers and short stories that are most commonly read in high schools, colleges, and universities.
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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide

    Harold Bloom

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Dec. 1, 1998)
    A critical analysis form of Poe's best-known stories, probing the psychological and philosophical aspects of the complex nineteenth-century writer's work