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Eliot’s The Waste Land  \nCurrently AvAilAble  \nThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  \nAll the Pretty Horses Animal Farm Beloved  \nBeowulf  \nBrave New World The Catcher in the Rye The Chosen  \nThe Crucible  \nCry, the Beloved Country Death of a Salesman Fahrenheit 451  \nFrankenstein The Glass Menagerie The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Hamlet The Handmaid’s Tale  \nThe House on Mango Street I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Iliad  \nJane Eyre  \nLord of the Flies Macbeth  \nMaggie: A Girl of the Streets The Member of the Wedding  \nThe Metamorphosis Native Son Of Mice and Men 1984 The Odyssey Oedipus Rex  \nOne Hundred Years of Solitude  \nPride and Prejudice Ragtime  \nThe Red Badge of Courage Romeo and Juliet Slaughterhouse-Five The Scarlet Letter  \nSnow Falling on Cedars A Streetcar Named Desire The Sun Also Rises A Tale of Two Cities The Things They Carried To Kill a Mockingbird The Waste Land  \nBloom’s  \nGUIDES  \nT. S. Eliot’s  \nThe Waste Land  \nEdited & with an Introduction by Harold Bloom  \nBloom’s Guides: The Waste Land  \nCopyright © 2007 by Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2007 by Harold Bloom  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact:  \nBloom’s Literary Criticism  \nAn imprint of Infobase Publishing  \n132 West 31st Street New York, NY 10001  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nT.S. Eliot’s The waste land / [edited and with an introduction by] Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s guides)  \nIncludes bibliographical references (p. 103) and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9361-0  \nISBN-10: 0-7910-9361-1  \n1. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965. Waste land. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Title. III. 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