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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,296 ratings — published 1918
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,585 ratings — published 1962
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 621 ratings — published 1982
The Reader's Companion to World Literature (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 44 ratings — published 1956
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 9,213 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,824 ratings — published 1989
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford Quick Reference)
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avg rating 4.59 — 34 ratings — published 2015
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 32,149 ratings — published 1981
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,336 ratings — published 2011
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,194 ratings — published 1979
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 278,880 ratings — published 1929
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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avg rating 4.03 — 291 ratings — published 1998
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 326,796 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,037 ratings — published 1995
On Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,359 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,112 ratings — published 1992
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 61,261 ratings — published 1942
Horror: The 100 Best Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 376 ratings — published 1988
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 31,977 ratings — published 1963
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 245,651 ratings — published 1957
Spoon River Anthology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 14,679 ratings — published 1915
Mastering English Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 90 ratings — published 1985
Doing English (Doing... Series)
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avg rating 3.56 — 241 ratings — published 1999
Kıskançlık (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 760 ratings — published
Liberty (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 912 ratings — published 2018
Death (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 658 ratings — published 2017
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 448 ratings — published 2012
The Little Book of Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 694 ratings — published 2016
Words The Sea Gave Us (Wordfoolery Words Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2020
A Macat analysis of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.83 — 6 ratings — published
The Ghost: A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 413 ratings — published 2017
Poetic Meter and Form (Wooden Books, 6)
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avg rating 4.31 — 39 ratings — published 2016
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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avg rating 3.81 — 48 ratings — published 2006
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 824 ratings — published 1967
Poetic Form: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
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avg rating 3.44 — 18 ratings — published 2012
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 155 ratings — published
English as a Global Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 519 ratings — published 1997
George Eliot in Context (Literature in Context)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Jane Austen in Context (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 97 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 109 ratings — published 1946
Classical Literary Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 86 ratings — published -380
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb (1997-10-24)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,481 ratings — published 2010
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Quick Reference) by Chris Baldick (14-May-2015) Paperback
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Romantic Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 10 ratings — published
Arthur Miller: His Life And Work (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 67 ratings — published 2003
Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19 ratings — published 2019
Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 40 ratings — published 1967
“So,' I said, partly to Magda, partly to myself, 'Rema left Argentina with this An-a-to-le person.' I adopted the four-syllable pronunciation with confidence, feeling myself an Hercule Poirot: it was near the end of the story, the suspects were in the room.”
― Atmospheric Disturbances
― Atmospheric Disturbances
“The question is which one of us is the frog and which is the toad,' Willem had said after they'd first seen the show, in JB's studio, and read the kindhearted books to each other late that night, laughing helplessly as they did.
He'd smiled; they had been lying in bed. 'Obviously, I'm the toad,' he said.
'No,' Willem said, 'I think you're the frog; your eyes are the same color as his skin.'
Willem sounded so serious that he grinned. 'That's your evidence?' he asked. 'And so what do you have in common with the toad?'
'I think I actually have a jacket like the one he has,' Willem said, and they began laughing again.”
― A Little Life
He'd smiled; they had been lying in bed. 'Obviously, I'm the toad,' he said.
'No,' Willem said, 'I think you're the frog; your eyes are the same color as his skin.'
Willem sounded so serious that he grinned. 'That's your evidence?' he asked. 'And so what do you have in common with the toad?'
'I think I actually have a jacket like the one he has,' Willem said, and they began laughing again.”
― A Little Life