The works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez attracts the interest of both historians and literary critics as his fiction has helped bring greater exposure of Latin American culture to the rest of the world. This book explores his works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The General in His Labyrinth.

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations presents a selection of the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from timeless classics like "Oedipus Rex" and "The Iliad" to such modern and contemporary works as Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera."

Certain great literary themes reappear continually throughout the world's literature and are a major component of literature curriculum standards. This title examines these themes as they function in classic literary works, from the Bible to the novels of Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.

Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, depicts a woman's struggle for personal awareness and self-empowerment and has inspired many of the African-American women writers who have followed in Hurston's footsteps. This study guide to the novel features short excerpts of critical essays, an annotated bibliography, and an index.

The seventeenth-century Metaphysical Poets, including John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Henry Vaughn, are still beloved today for their inventive metaphors and agile intelligence. This volume contains a collection of the finest contemporary criticism of the Metaphysical Poets.

Features critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism; notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index; and, an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. This guide features an annotated bibliography and a listing of works by the author for further reading.

Bloom's Classic Critical Views offers a selection of the finest classic criticism on the authors most commonly read in high school and college classes today. Whereas the popular Bloom's Modern Critical Views series provides the best contemporary criticism on great authors, this new series attempts to place these enduring authors in the context of their time and to provide criticism that has proved over the years to be the most valuable to readers and writers. Most of the essays featured in this unique collection are from the 19th and early 20th centuries; selections range from reviews in...

This title features critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism, notes on contributing authors and a chronology of the author's life.

To many, Henrik Ibsen is seen as the father of modern drama. By tightening the theatrical scope of his work and by fixing his authorial gaze on the quotidian struggles, both domestically and professionally, of his characters, Ibsen achieved a realism, freshness, and clarity of vision rarely seen in European theater up to that point. Explored in this new volume of critical essays are Ibsen's classic works including The Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and An Enemy of the People. A chronology, bibliography, index, and introductory from literary scholar Harold Bloom complete the title.