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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,106 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,605 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 423,194 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,949 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,570 ratings — published 1994
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,705 ratings — published 1942
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,812 ratings — published 1978
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 250,206 ratings — published 1929
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,888 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,336 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,006 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,891 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,764 ratings — published -335
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,675 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,414 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,945 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,807 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 20,304 ratings — published 2023
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,522 ratings — published 1997
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,070 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,331 ratings — published 2003
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,897 ratings — published 1934
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,278 ratings — published 2005
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,577 ratings — published 1990
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,723 ratings — published 1973
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,618 ratings — published 1980
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 596 ratings — published 1930
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,450 ratings — published 2003
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,657 ratings — published 1985
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,592 ratings — published 2019
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 458 ratings — published 1931
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,285 ratings — published 1991
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,692 ratings — published 1993
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,594 ratings — published 2013
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,063 ratings — published 1981
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,405,630 ratings — published 1945
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,502 ratings — published 1988
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,393 ratings — published 1949
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,688 ratings — published 2011
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,989 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,550 ratings — published 1980
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,935 ratings — published 1925
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,302 ratings — published 2002
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.54 — 23,594 ratings — published 2021
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,021 ratings — published 1936
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,045 ratings — published 2016
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,802 ratings — published 1987
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,793 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,262,058 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,748,548 ratings — published 1953
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.”
― Jane Eyre
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.”
― Jane Eyre
“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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