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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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Aspects of the Novel
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Poetics
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Why Read the Classics?
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Lectures on Literature
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On Literature
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
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Literary Theory: An Introduction
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Orientalism
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The Art of Fiction
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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3.58 avg rating — 33,973 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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How to Read and Why
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3.61 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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How Fiction Works
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Anatomy of Criticism
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A History of Reading
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3.99 avg rating — 5,493 ratings
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
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3.77 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
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The Outsider
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
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S/Z: An Essay
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The Pleasure of the Text
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Image - Music - Text
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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide
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3.82 avg rating — 1,264 ratings
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Of Grammatology
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3.96 avg rating — 5,350 ratings
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
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4.03 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
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The Captive Mind
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
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Empire of Signs
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Classics for Pleasure
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
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4.05 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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3.76 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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4.09 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Uses of Literature
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Encounter
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The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
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4.09 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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Where the Stress Falls: Essays
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The Theory of the Novel
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Marxism and Literary Criticism
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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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Am I a Snob?: Modernism and the Novel
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
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An Experiment in Criticism
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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Heretics
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The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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Literature and Evil
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No Other Book: Selected Essays – Literary Criticism and Prose by Randall Jarrell, A Leading American Poet-Critic
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
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The Art of the Novel
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Marxism and Literature
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The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
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...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978
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The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
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3.96 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
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4.14 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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3.77 avg rating — 11,846 ratings
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
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How to Read a Poem
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The Identity of Yeats
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Morphology of the Folktale
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The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
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How to Read Literature
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The Historical Novel
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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Literary Taste
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Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure
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Howards End: E.M. Forster's House of Fiction (Twayne's Masterwork Studies No. 93)
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The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel
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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
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3.90 avg rating — 599 ratings
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The English Novel: An Introduction
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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4.34 avg rating — 2,872 ratings
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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
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How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy
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The Art of Literature and the Art of Controversy
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Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader
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