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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,478 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 — 3,587 ratings — published 1962
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 623 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 — 9,212 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,827 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 — 32,302 ratings — published 1981
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,340 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 — 4,205 ratings — published 1979
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 283,352 ratings — published 1929
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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avg rating 4.04 — 290 ratings — published 1998
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 328,661 ratings — published 2000
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,049 ratings — published 1995
On Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,365 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,127 ratings — published 1992
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 61,557 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 — 32,158 ratings — published 1963
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 246,764 ratings — published 1957
Spoon River Anthology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 14,854 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 3.57 — 242 ratings — published 1999
Kıskançlık (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 769 ratings — published
Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 917 ratings — published 2018
Death (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 661 ratings — published 2017
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 452 ratings — published 2012
The Little Book of Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 698 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 — 416 ratings — published 2017
Poetic Meter and Form (Wooden Books, 6)
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avg rating 4.28 — 40 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 — 826 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 3.82 — 114 ratings — published 1946
Classical Literary Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 85 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 — 1,484 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
“The photo had been taken at the opening of JB's fifth, long-delayed show, 'Frog and Toad,' which had been exclusively images of the two of them, but very blurred, and more abstract than JB's previous work. (They hadn't quite known what to think of the series title, though JB had claimed it was affectionate. 'Arnold Lobel?' he had screeched at them when they asked him about it. 'Hello?!' But neither he nor Willem had read Lobel's books as children, and they'd had to go out and buy them to make sense of the reference.)”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“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