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The Western Canon by Harold Bloom Sports set alongside new assessments byAn impressive workdeeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading listit is a heroically brave, formidably learned defense of the great works of literature that comprise the