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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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Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights: Critical Studies
Rod Mengham
4.22 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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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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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
4.29 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 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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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
4.16 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Michael Ward
4.32 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Corey Olsen
4.23 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
4.05 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
Don Gifford
4.21 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt
4.11 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Seven Nights
Jorge Luis Borges
4.30 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980
Julio Cortázar
4.46 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Dæmon Voices
Philip Pullman
4.12 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
4.44 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
James Shapiro
4.07 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
Stuart Gilbert
4.17 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Geoff Dyer
4.03 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Magical Worlds of Lord of the Rings: The Amazing Myths, Legends and Facts Behind the Masterpiece
David Colbert
4.06 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones
Carolyne Larrington
4.49 average rating, · 2k ratings
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