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The World of Yesterday
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
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A Gentleman of Pleasure : One Life of John Glassco : Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer
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Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
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The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989
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India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
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Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
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3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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3.36 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Polysyllabic Spree
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The System of Comics
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William Burroughs. The Algebra of Need
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Inventing The Real World: The Art of Alain Robbe-Grillet
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films
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4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction
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The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision
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Russian Pulp: The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime
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French Symbolist Poetry, 50th Anniversary Edition, Bilingual Edition
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3.90 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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4.21 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Possession: A Romance
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3.90 avg rating — 84,330 ratings
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Contemporary Literature: The Basics
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The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
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3.70 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia
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3.91 avg rating — 557 ratings
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Experiences in translation
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4.01 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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MISREADINGS
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Distant Reading
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3.86 avg rating — 269 ratings
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China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Three-Cornered World
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3.75 avg rating — 5,652 ratings
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The Odd One In: On Comedy
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4.15 avg rating — 136 ratings
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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3.44 avg rating — 4,987 ratings
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Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction: Writing Between High and Low Culture
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Locating Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44)
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3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
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Why Read the Classics?
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3.82 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
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The Uses of Literature
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Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 215,997 ratings
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Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays
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Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers: From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
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Strategies of Fantasy
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The Unfortunates
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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Mishima: A Vision of the Void
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Camus
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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3.77 avg rating — 2,793 ratings
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The Letter Killers Club
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A Novel Bookstore
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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Vanishing Point
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Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures
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Bartleby & Co.
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Memoirs of Montparnasse
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Intertextual Assemblage in Robbe Grillet: From Topology to the Golden Triangle
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For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction (Northwestern University Press Paperbacks)
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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
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Ghosts in the Mirror
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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How to Read and Why
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The Logogryph: A Bibliography Of Imaginary Books
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Words in Reflection: Modern Language Theory and Postmodern Fiction
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Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction
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The Spy Novels of John le Carré
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A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions
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3.63 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
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3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 19) (Volume 19)
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today: Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy, and Science Fiction
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Deconstructing the Starships: Essays and Review (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 16) (Volume 16)
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Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction
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How Novels Work
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Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System
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Intimate, Intrusive and Triumphant: Readers in the 'Liaisons dangereuses' (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages)
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction
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4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby
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3.81 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality
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Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
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Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies
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Literary Feminisms
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Reading Science Fiction
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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José Saramago
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
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Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
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3.89 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Postmodern Italian Fiction: The Crisis of Reason in Calvino, Eco, Sciascia, Malerba
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Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory
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Critical Theory and Science Fiction
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Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism
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Literary Theory: An Introduction
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
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