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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 García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.

Each title 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
• An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.