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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,440 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,686 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,508 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,971 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,764 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,617 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 262,742 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,803 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,507 ratings — published 1955
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,227 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,179 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,666 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,962 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,696 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,594 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,007 ratings — published 1973
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 22,193 ratings — published 2023
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,869 ratings — published 2000
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,619 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 — 4,129 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,588 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 — 3,652 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,932 ratings — published 1934
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,312 ratings — published 2005
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,752 ratings — published 1973
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,674 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 — 34,102 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 — 38,742 ratings — published 1985
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 608 ratings — published 1930
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,668 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,578,174 ratings — published 1945
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,370 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 — 463 ratings — published 1931
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,490 ratings — published 2016
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,114 ratings — published 1981
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,177 ratings — published 1949
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,821 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,941 ratings — published 1932
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,918 ratings — published 1973
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,657 ratings — published 2013
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,323 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,775 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 — 6,077 ratings — published 2010
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,905 ratings — published 1980
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,975 ratings — published 1925
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,127 ratings — published 2021
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,617 ratings — published 1936
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,522 ratings — published 1991
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,737 ratings — published 1948
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,282 ratings — published 1961
“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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