Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Author: Harold Bloom

— Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature — The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism — Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author’s life, and an index….Read More

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