Robert Alter - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel, 1965, Harvard University Press
  • The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00427-X
  • Motives for Fiction, 1984, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-58762-5
  • The Art of Biblical Poetry, 1985, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00431-8
  • A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal, in collaboration with Carol Cosman, 1986, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-53575-6
  • The Literary Guide to the Bible Edited by Alter and Frank Kermode, 1987, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-87531-9
  • The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language Revolution, 1988, University of Washington Press.
  • Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, 1990, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-31499-5
  • Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem, 1991, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-60663-0
  • The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, 1999, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-32077-4
  • The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, 2004, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-01955-1
  • Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Novel, 2005, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10802-8
  • The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary, 2007, W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-06226-7
  • The Book of Genesis, translation by Robert Alter, illustrated by R. Crumb, 2009, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-06102-7
  • Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, 2010, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12881-2
  • The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary, 2010, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-06812-9

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