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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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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
4.00 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.32 average rating, · 5k ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 6k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k 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 Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo
4.17 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 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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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison
4.09 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Stephen King: The Art of Darkness
Douglas E. Winter
4.16 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
Vladimir Propp
4.00 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures
John Granger
4.29 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
4.11 average rating, · 2k ratings
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How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
4.03 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Educated Imagination
Northrop Frye
4.10 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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A Horse at Night: On Writing
Amina Cain
4.00 average rating, · 1.8k 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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Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.02 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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