Subject: England › Intellectual life

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• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt (1,572 copies)
• Albion by Peter Ackroyd (479 copies)
• The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd (400 copies)
• The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter (307 copies)
• The Nature of the Book by Adrian Johns (184 copies)
• Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The… by Daniel Pool (168 copies)
• The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the… by John Brewer (137 copies)
• The Age of Shakespeare (Modern Library Chronicles) by Frank Kermode (119 copies)
• Thomas More: A Biography by Richard Marius (117 copies)
• Shakespeare the Thinker by A. D. Nuttall (90 copies)
• Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account by Robert Martin Adams (78 copies)
• The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter (77 copies)
• Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Selina Hastings (63 copies)
• A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger (55 copies)
• A man of singular virtue being a life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper (53 copies)
• Children of the sun: A narrative of "decadence" in England… by Martin Green (51 copies)
• Seventeenth Century Poetry the Schools of Donne and John… by Hugh Kenner (49 copies)
• Statesman and Saint by Jasper Ridley (47 copies)
• Jane Austen: A Companion by Josephine Ross (46 copies)
• Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton (44 copies)
• Thomas More by R. W. Chambers (43 copies)
• A Literary History of England by Albert Croll Baugh (43 copies)
• Perlman's Ordeal by Brooks Hansen (42 copies)
• Smiling in Slow Motion: Diaries, 1991-94 by Derek Jarman (41 copies)
• Chronicles: The Writing of History in Medieval England by Christopher Given-Wilson (40 copies)
• A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing (40 copies)
• Literary Trails: British Writers in Their Landscapes by Christina Hardyment (39 copies)
• Three Houses by Angela Thirkell (35 copies)
• Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Sandra Jobson Darroch (35 copies)
• Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour (34 copies)
• The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse by H. J. C. Grierson (33 copies)
• The Experience of Defeat (Peregrine books) by Christopher Hill (32 copies)
• Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles by Paul Levy (29 copies)
• Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution by Christopher Hill (29 copies)
• The Last Letters of Thomas More by Thomas, Sir, Saint More (29 copies)
• The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St Clair (24 copies)
• The King's Good Servant but God's First : The Life and… by James Monti (23 copies)
• Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 (New Historicism -… by Steven Justice (23 copies)
• Everything to lose : diaries, 1945-1960 by Frances Partridge (23 copies)
• Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth Century… by Hugh Trevor-Roper (22 copies)
• An illustrated cultural history of England by F. E. Halliday (21 copies)
• A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers by Hugh Kenner (21 copies)
• Elders and Betters by Quentin Bell (18 copies)
• Journey to the Frontier Two Roads to The by Peter Stansky (18 copies)
• Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle,… by Miranda Seymour (18 copies)
• Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 by Tessa Watt (17 copies)
• The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural… by James Sambrook (15 copies)
• Newton's Apple: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific… by Peter Aughton (15 copies)
• Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century… by Joyce Oldham Appleby (15 copies)
• Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing… by Annabel M. Patterson (15 copies)

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