Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

A book of wicked wit, Miss Lonelyhearts is the saga of a young (male) newspaper advice columnist who grows despondent reading the piles of letters from the broken and the confused. Miss Lonelyhearts takes to sickness for relief until his gruff editor, Shrike, tells him to get over it and turn to Christ, "the Miss Lonelyhearts of Miss Lonelyhearts." This advice propels Miss Lonelyhearts into a period of soul-searching that sends him to both the church and the bottle.

The Man Without Qualities (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the "Parallel Campaign", to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918.

Gabriel Garcias Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

One of the Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's triumphs, Love in the Time of Cholera is a masterwork of magical realism. This text contains an introductory essay, critical biography,and chronology of the authors's life.

Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", perhaps her most recognizable work, is a story of manners, courtship, and marriage in 18th- and 19th-century England. Elizabeth Bennet, the witty heroine of the novel, is Austen's most vibrant and vital literary character. This updated volume presents a perceptive introduction by series editor Harold Bloom and an eclectic collection of full-length essays by respected scholars that will enrich students' academic views on this charming classic.

Jane Eyre (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", published in October 1847, was an immediate success, going into second and third printings by spring of 1848. Even Queen Victoria, according to her diary, read the story to Prince Albert until midnight. The tale of the "poor, obscure, plain, and little" governess, her brooding employer, Edward Rochester, and the madwoman secreted in the attic, "Jane Eyre" is considered a staple of Gothic and Victorian literature.