Subject: English fiction › History and criticism

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• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (4,556 copies)
• Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (863 copies)
• The Art of Fiction by David Lodge (459 copies)
• The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and… by Ian Watt (321 copies)
• On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature by C. S. Lewis (241 copies)
• Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in… by John Sutherland (240 copies)
• The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (Rough Guides Reference… by Paul Simpson (196 copies)
• Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The… by Daniel Pool (166 copies)
• A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from… by Elaine Showalter (153 copies)
• Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction by John Sutherland (153 copies)
• Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A… by Anthony Burgess (129 copies)
• The English Novel by Walter Allen (121 copies)
• Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women… by A. S. Byatt (112 copies)
• The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis (107 copies)
• The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to… by Edward Mendelson (87 copies)
• How Novels Work by John Mullan (79 copies)
• A Very Great Profession: Woman's Novel, 1914-39 (Virago… by Nicola Beauman (74 copies)
• The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon (74 copies)
• Dangerous Pilgrimages: Trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the… by Malcolm Bradbury (66 copies)
• Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's… by Humphrey Carpenter (64 copies)
• The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Dalkey Archive… by Hugh Kenner (54 copies)
• Granite and Rainbow: Essays (Harvest Book ; Hb 318) by Virginia Woolf (51 copies)
• Hours in a library by Leslie Stephen (50 copies)
• You're a Brick, Angela by Mary Cadogan (42 copies)
• The English Novel: Form and Function by Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent (42 copies)
• Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal… by David Lodge (39 copies)
• Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women by Tania Modleski (38 copies)
• Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels by Rachel M. Brownstein (36 copies)
• Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction by John Sutherland (35 copies)
• How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from… by Nancy Armstrong (31 copies)
• Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century… by J. Paul Hunter (30 copies)
• Jane Austen and the War of Ideas by Marilyn Butler (30 copies)
• Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English… by Geoffrey N. Leech (28 copies)
• Fiction and the Reading Public by Q.D. Leavis (27 copies)
• Realist Novel (Approaching Literature) by Dennis Walder (25 copies)
• Novels of the eighteen-forties by Kathleen Tillotson (23 copies)
• Thinking About Women by Mary Ellmann (22 copies)
• The novel; a modern guide to fifteen English masterpieces by Elizabeth A., Drew (21 copies)
• Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature by Joseph Carroll (21 copies)
• An introduction to the English novel by Arnold Kettle (19 copies)
• The Situation of the Novel by Bernard Bergonzi (18 copies)
• The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class,… by Nicola Humble (18 copies)
• The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750 (Between… by Cameron McFarlane (18 copies)
• Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (17 copies)
• Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane (17 copies)
• The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (University Paperback,… by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (17 copies)
• Contemporary Writers: Essays on Twentieth-Century Books and… by Virginia Woolf (16 copies)
• The Novel and the Modern World by David Daiches (16 copies)
• Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction by Nina Auerbach (15 copies)
• Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (Early… by John Rieder (15 copies)

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