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Literary Reference Books
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The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,770 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 — 3,584 ratings — published 1962
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 618 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 — 9,208 ratings — published 1962
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,815 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 — 31,895 ratings — published 1981
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,332 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 — 4,172 ratings — published 1979
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 272,580 ratings — published 1929
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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avg rating 4.03 — 288 ratings — published 1998
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 323,982 ratings — published 2000
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,019 ratings — published 1995
On Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,345 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,101 ratings — published 1992
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 60,794 ratings — published 1942
Horror: The 100 Best Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 375 ratings — published 1988
Doing English (Doing... Series)
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avg rating 3.56 — 240 ratings — published 1999
Jealousy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 751 ratings — published
Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 901 ratings — published 2018
Death (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 654 ratings — published 2017
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 444 ratings — published 2012
The Little Book of Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 691 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 — 406 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 — 47 ratings — published 2006
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 816 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 4.29 — 154 ratings — published
English as a Global Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 516 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 3.96 — 96 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 107 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 — 1,477 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 3.69 — 68 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
A Man Without a Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 50,864 ratings — published 2005
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 330 ratings — published 2009
Pre-Raphaelites in Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 287 ratings — published 1989
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.57 — 161 ratings — published 1871
“I remember the book I was reading. Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. I remember because there were so many things in Hour of the Star with which I found kinship that I'd brought along a stub of pencil in case I urgently needed to underline.”
― A Line Made By Walking
― A Line Made By Walking
“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
