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Essays14
Language14
Literary & Classics14
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Art, Design & Culture4
Places & World Literature4
Writing4
Biography & Memoir3

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Literary Criticism3

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Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
4.30 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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On Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.16 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane
4.23 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
4.13 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Japan in honderd kleine stukjes
Paulien Cornelisse
4.07 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Paulien Cornelisse
4.11 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
Mark Twain
4.12 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
Eliot Weinberger
4.26 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Fifty Sounds
Polly Barton
4.18 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Quack This Way
David Foster Wallace
4.21 average rating, · 983 ratings
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Ää: Manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
4.65 average rating, · 818 ratings
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This Little Art
Kate Briggs
4.29 average rating, · 806 ratings
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Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
Jay Rubin
4.18 average rating, · 698 ratings
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Grammamanti: Immaginare futuri con le parole
Vera Gheno
4.05 average rating, · 684 ratings
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