Sigmund Freud
Kurt Cobain
Harold Bloom
Read by Sigmund Freud, Kurt Cobain, Harold Bloom
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
byWilliam Shakespeare
2003432 Pages“Shakespeare is the canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature.”
— Harold Bloom
Source: The Western Canon
Don Quixote
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
byMiguel de Cervantes
2003976 Pages“The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes... is to augment one's own growing inner self.”
— Harold Bloom
Source: The Western Canon
The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
byDante Alighieri
2013752 Pages(169,113)
“Dante is the most aggressive and polemical of the major Western writers... He is the only poet since Shakespeare who is adequately compared to him.”
— Harold Bloom
Source: The Western Canon
Little, Big
or, The Fairies' Parliament
byJohn Crowley
1981538 Pages“I always regularly reread a book that I wish more people would read: Little, Big. It is literally the most enchanting twentieth-century book I know.”
— Harold Bloom
Source: Introduction to Little, Big (25th Anniversary Edition)
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