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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,337 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,663 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 433,862 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,963 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,745 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,598 ratings — published 1994
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,478 ratings — published 1978
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 257,893 ratings — published 1929
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,447 ratings — published 1955
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,111 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,140 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,947 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,381 ratings — published -335
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,539 ratings — published 1992
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,689 ratings — published 1998
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,419 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,850 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,581 ratings — published 2023
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,591 ratings — published 1997
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,112 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,166 ratings — published 2003
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,921 ratings — published 1934
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,635 ratings — published 1990
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,747 ratings — published 1973
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,963 ratings — published 2005
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,658 ratings — published 1980
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,963 ratings — published 1985
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 — 33,901 ratings — published 2003
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 605 ratings — published 1930
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,643 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,506,016 ratings — published 1945
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,350 ratings — published 1991
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,785 ratings — published 1993
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 463 ratings — published 1931
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,093 ratings — published 1981
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,064,311 ratings — published 1932
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,885 ratings — published 1949
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,357 ratings — published 2016
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,629 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,742 ratings — published 2011
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,050 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,537 ratings — published 1980
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,960 ratings — published 1925
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,893 ratings — published 1973
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 24,582 ratings — published 2021
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,412 ratings — published 1936
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,314 ratings — published 2002
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,509 ratings — published 1991
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,210 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,407,976 ratings — published 1949
“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
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