Bloom’s Literature‘s popular “How to Write about Literature” section provides specific, exclusive, student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works. Fourteen new authors have just been added in what is the greatest expansion of this feature to date. Newly added authors and works include Aldous Huxley, Zora Neale Hurston, Leo Tolstoy, Elie Wiesel, and more.
The strategies discussed in these entries are designed to help students bring deeper analysis into their work and cover subjects such as themes; character; history and context; philosophy and ideas; form and genre; language, symbols, and imagery; and compare and contrast essays.
Here is the full list of new authors and works:
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Elie Wiesel, Night
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
- John Knowles, A Separate Peace
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
- Virginia Woolf, Dalloway
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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