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Professor Gervase Fen: English language and literature The Chronicles of Narnia: C. S. Lewis: Professor Digory Kirke: history Discworld: Terry Pratchett: Professor Rincewind: Doomsday Book: Connie Willis: Professor James Dunworthy: history Dracula: Bram Stoker: Professor Abraham Van Helsing: many Exit to Eden: Anne Rice: Professor Collins ...
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. [1] In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". [2]
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
The Oxford Book of English Verse [23] is an anthology of English poetry that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation. The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a ...
List of books by G. K. Chesterton; List of books by Agatha Christie; List of books by Jacques Derrida; List of works by Neil Gaiman; List of books by William Gibson; List of books by Graham Greene; List of books by Clive Hamilton; List of books by Friedrich Hayek; List of works by Søren Kierkegaard; List of works by Stephen King; List of books ...
Thomas A. Bailey, professor of history, former Organization of American Historians president, former Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook The American Pageant; Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.), professor of military and naval history
Among the book series in the arts published by Cambridge University Press are: [4] Cambridge Film Classics; Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture; Cambridge Studies in the History of Art; Contemporary Artists and their Critics; Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks; Fitzwilliam Museum Publications; Greater Medieval Houses