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Literary & Classics130
Literary Criticism130
Non-Fiction124
Literature83
Essays78
Art, Design & Culture55
Criticism49
Writing45
Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality43

History, Politics & Society36

Books About Books33

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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
4.29 average rating, · 12.7k ratings
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The Girl Who Was on Fire
Leah Wilson
4.29 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Sara Lodge
4.45 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
4.14 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
4.33 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights: Critical Studies
Rod Mengham
4.22 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Lord Of The Rings: A Reader's Companion
Wayne G. Hammond
4.39 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
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The Weird and the Eerie
Mark Fisher
4.01 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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Shelley's Poetry and Prose
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.10 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
4.29 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
C.S. Lewis
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Image - Music - Text
Roland Barthes
4.09 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.17 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
4.15 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
4.03 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
4.42 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
4.16 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm
4.05 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo
4.17 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Maureen Corrigan
4.05 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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