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| Author | Harold Bloom |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Western canon |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
Publication date | 1994 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 578 |
| ISBN | 978-1-57322-514-4 |
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.