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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,654 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,725 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,439 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,801 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,981 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,660 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 270,366 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,516 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,618 ratings — published 1955
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,404 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,330 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,192 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,002 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,718 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,691 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,080 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,906 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.67 — 23,350 ratings — published 2023
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,656 ratings — published 1997
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,691 ratings — published 1990
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,164 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,516 ratings — published 2003
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,769 ratings — published 1973
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,951 ratings — published 1934
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,964 ratings — published 2005
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,700 ratings — published 1980
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,018 ratings — published 1985
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 — 34,519 ratings — published 2003
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 612 ratings — published 1930
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,707 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,671,543 ratings — published 1945
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,702 ratings — published 2016
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,434 ratings — published 1991
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 466 ratings — published 1931
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,001 ratings — published 1925
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,133 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,699 ratings — published 1949
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,885 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,004 ratings — published 1932
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,974 ratings — published 1973
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,702 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,814 ratings — published 2011
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,142 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,912 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,939 ratings — published 1988
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,173 ratings — published 2021
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,605,595 ratings — published 1948
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,298 ratings — published 1961
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,395 ratings — published 1961
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,141 ratings — published 2001
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
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“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
