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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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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Scholastic Inc.
4.20 average rating, · 7.9k 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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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
4.03 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k 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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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
Stuart Gilbert
4.17 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.26 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Vincent B. Leitch
4.13 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
Gilles Deleuze
4.15 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
4.09 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
4.09 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Kevin Birmingham
4.33 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
Susan Sontag
4.02 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Helen Vendler
4.31 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.35 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger
4.07 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Shakespeare After All
Marjorie Garber
4.40 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Essayism
Brian Dillon
4.14 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Borges on Writing
Jorge Luis Borges
4.07 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal
4.40 average rating, · 935 ratings
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