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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,059 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,779 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 460,293 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,877 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,996 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,719 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 284,786 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,646 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,750 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,777 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,518 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,110 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,169 ratings — published -335
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,615 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,746 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,830 ratings — published 1992
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 25,163 ratings — published 2023
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,966 ratings — published 2000
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,793 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,760 ratings — published 1997
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,836 ratings — published 2003
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,786 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,972 ratings — published 1934
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,740 ratings — published 1980
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,213 ratings — published 1979
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 620 ratings — published 1930
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,974 ratings — published 1985
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,047 ratings — published 2005
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,769 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,490 ratings — published 2003
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,050 ratings — published 1925
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,117 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,841,409 ratings — published 1945
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 473 ratings — published 1931
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,571 ratings — published 1991
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,984 ratings — published 1993
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,750 ratings — published 2021
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,182 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,452 ratings — published 1949
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,128 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,163,805 ratings — published 1932
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,898 ratings — published 2011
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,314 ratings — published 1961
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,788 ratings — published 2016
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.72 — 6,248 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,737 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,244 ratings — published 1988
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,504 ratings — published 1961
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,594 ratings — published 1965
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 80,162 ratings — published 2019
“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
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