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Erdman's Edition of The Poetry and Prose ofWilliam Blake Blake's Apocalypse The Visionary Company Shelley's Mythmaking  \nHOW TO READ AND WHY  \nHAROLD BLOOM  \nA TOUCHSTONE BOOK PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore  \nTOUCHSTONE  \nRockefeller Center  \n1230 Avenue of the Americas  \nNew York, NY I 0020  \nCopyright© 2000 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.  \nFirst Touchstone Edition 200 I  \nTOUCHSTONE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.  \nFor information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales:  \n[1-800-456-6798](1-800-456-6798 or business@simonandschuster.com)[ or business@simonandschuster.com](1-800-456-6798 or business@simonandschuster.com)  \nDESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING  \nSet in Adobe Garamond  \nManufactured in the United States of America  \n 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nThe Library of Congress has cataloged the Scribner edition as follows:  \nBloom, Harold.  \nHow to read and why I Harold Bloom.  \nI. Reading. 2. Literature, Modern-Appreciation. 3. Literature, Modern Study and teaching. 4. Literature, Modern-History and criticism. I. 1ide.  \nPN83 .B57 2000  \n801' .9-dc21 00-708611  \nISBN 0-684-85906-8  \n0-684-85907-6 (Pbk)  \nFor Miriam Bratu Hansen  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nMy principal debt is to my gifted and devoted editor, Gillian Blake, who helped reshape this book for me.  \nI owe much also to my literary agents, Glen Hardey and Lynn Chu.  \nMirjana Kalezic, my research assistant, was endlessly helpful in the composition of this book.  \nI thank also my assistants at Yale: Eric Boles, Trevor Eppe heimer, Scott Kershner, Octavia DiLeo, and as always, the libraries and librarians ofYale University.  \nHarold Bloom  \nTimothy Dwight College Yale University October 1 5, 1999  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface 19  \nPrologue: Why Read? 21  \nI. SHORT STORIES  \nIntroduction 31  \nIvan Turgenev 32  \n\"Bezhin Lea\" 32  \n\"Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands\" 34  \nAnton Chekhov 36  \n\"The Kiss\" 37  \n\"The Student\" 3 9  \n\"The Lady with the Dog\" 40  \nGuy de Maupassant 42  \n\"Madame Tellier's Establishment\" 43  \n\"The Haria\" 44  \nErnest Hemingway 46  \n\"Hills Like White Elephants\" 46  \n\"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen\" 47  \n\"The Snows of Kilimanjaro\" 48  \n\"A Sea Change\" 50  \nFlannery O'Connor 51  \n\"A Good Man Is Hard to Find\" 52  \n\"Good Country People\" 52  \n\"A View of the Woods\" 53","cbCaice5d47hAO0R","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaice5d47hAO0R","pdf",2420782,283,"English","# Preface\n# Prologue: Why Read?\n# I. 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