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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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Why Read the Classics?
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Aspects of the Novel
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Poetics
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On Literature
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Literary theory: an introduction
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Lectures on Literature
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Orientalism
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The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
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3.93 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
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How to Read and Why
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 21,536 ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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3.64 avg rating — 26,196 ratings
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The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
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3.98 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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The Outsider
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4.04 avg rating — 3,940 ratings
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Anatomy of Criticism
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4.09 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
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A History of Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 4,709 ratings
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
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3.79 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
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4.01 avg rating — 4,964 ratings
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Image - Music - Text
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4.10 avg rating — 3,658 ratings
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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
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3.98 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide
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How Fiction Works
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
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Culture and Imperialism
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Classics for Pleasure
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S/Z: An Essay
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Of Grammatology
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3.96 avg rating — 4,885 ratings
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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3.73 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
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3.81 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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4.09 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The Captive Mind
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
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The Uses of Literature
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
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Encounter
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The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
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The Theory of the Novel
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Marxism and Literary Criticism
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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
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At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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Am I a Snob?
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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Literature and Evil
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No Other Book: Selected Essays
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Empire of Signs
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
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The Art of the Novel
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Marxism and Literature
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Where the Stress Falls: Essays
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
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The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition
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...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978
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The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
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Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
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How to Read a Poem
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The Identity of Yeats
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The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
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How to Read Literature
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The Historical Novel
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
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Literary Taste
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Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure
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Howards End: E.M. Forster's House of Fiction (Twayne's Masterwork Studies No. 93)
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The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel
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Heretics
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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
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3.90 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The English Novel: An Introduction
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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4.32 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
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Novel Criticism: How to Critique Novels Like a Novelist
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Reflecting the Eternal: Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. Lewis
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The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to his Works, Life, and Thought
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Confluences 1: Essays on the New Canadian Literature
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Sidney's The Defence of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
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Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal
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Style is the Rocket: and Other Essays on Writing
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Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright
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A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading
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