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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,001 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,772 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,611 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,865 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,996 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,710 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,518 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,496 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,703 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,746 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,485 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,092 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,982 ratings — published -335
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 59,963 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,746 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,810 ratings — published 1992
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,955 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,926 ratings — published 2023
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,788 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,738 ratings — published 1997
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,613 ratings — published 2003
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,758 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,970 ratings — published 1934
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,730 ratings — published 1980
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,203 ratings — published 1979
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 618 ratings — published 1930
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,712 ratings — published 1985
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,895 ratings — published 2005
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,760 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,376 ratings — published 2003
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,048 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,817,911 ratings — published 1945
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 473 ratings — published 1931
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,043 ratings — published 1925
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,554 ratings — published 1991
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,971 ratings — published 1993
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,549 ratings — published 2021
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,175 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,353 ratings — published 1949
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,101 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,156,791 ratings — published 1932
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,768 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,885 ratings — published 2011
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,310 ratings — published 1961
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,226 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,957 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,214 ratings — published 1988
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,490 ratings — published 1961
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,984 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,789 ratings — published 2013
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
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“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
