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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,543 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,704 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 440,591 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,974 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,781 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,637 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 266,752 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,153 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,566 ratings — published 1955
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,315 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,256 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,941 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,981 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,713 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,647 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,416 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,893 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.68 — 22,756 ratings — published 2023
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,638 ratings — published 1997
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 — 4,151 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,066 ratings — published 2003
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,671 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,941 ratings — published 1934
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,761 ratings — published 1973
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,622 ratings — published 2005
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,681 ratings — published 1980
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,348 ratings — published 2003
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,376 ratings — published 1985
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 610 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 — 6,685 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,626,093 ratings — published 1945
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,395 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 4.09 — 464 ratings — published 1931
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,124 ratings — published 1981
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,439 ratings — published 1949
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,861 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,099,032 ratings — published 1932
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,587 ratings — published 2016
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,685 ratings — published 2013
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,986 ratings — published 1925
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,946 ratings — published 1973
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,793 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 — 6,107 ratings — published 2010
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,359 ratings — published 1980
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,639 ratings — published 2021
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,799 ratings — published 2019
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,551,797 ratings — published 1948
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,290 ratings — published 1961
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,853 ratings — published 1988
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,371 ratings — published 1961
“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
“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
