Subject: Great Britain › Intellectual life

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• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1,651 copies)
• The Victorians by A. N. Wilson (506 copies)
• The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the… by Jenny Uglow (377 copies)
• Letters on England by Voltaire (362 copies)
• The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the… by Christopher Hill (353 copies)
• Author, Author by David Lodge (333 copies)
• A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr (250 copies)
• Culture and Society 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams (237 copies)
• Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body… by Roy Porter (204 copies)
• The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart (179 copies)
• Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate (166 copies)
• The Age of Shakespeare by Boris Ford (160 copies)
• Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter (146 copies)
• From Donne to Marvell by Boris Ford (143 copies)
• The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature by Pat Rogers (139 copies)
• From Dryden to Johnson by Boris Ford (131 copies)
• The Age of Chaucer by Boris Ford (128 copies)
• From Dickens to Hardy by Boris Ford (127 copies)
• From Blake to Byron by Boris Ford (122 copies)
• Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon (121 copies)
• On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life and Tumultuous… by Lisa Jardine (119 copies)
• The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among… by John Carey (112 copies)
• George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets… by George Herbert (99 copies)
• Novel Destinations by Shannon Mckenna Schmidt (97 copies)
• The Short Oxford History of English Literature by Andrew Sanders (97 copies)
• Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas by David Daiches (95 copies)
• The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the… by Roy Porter (95 copies)
• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American… by Gertrude Himmelfarb (90 copies)
• Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker,… by Stanley Wells (89 copies)
• The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. Houghton (88 copies)
• The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale… by Jonathan Rose (85 copies)
• The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick (82 copies)
• The Long Revolution by Raymond Williams (73 copies)
• A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature by Margaret Drabble (65 copies)
• Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine (64 copies)
• How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British… by Joan Bodger (63 copies)
• English literature in the earlier seventeenth century,… by Douglas Bush (59 copies)
• Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb (53 copies)
• The Present by Boris Ford (51 copies)
• The Eighteen Nineties by Holbrook Jackson (51 copies)
• The Aesthetic Adventure by William Gaunt (50 copies)
• The Spirit of the Age by William Hazlitt (48 copies)
• Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century… by Christopher Hill (48 copies)
• Party in the Blitz by Elias Canetti (45 copies)
• The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: How a Spectacular Hoax… by Peter Lamont (43 copies)
• Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Modern Essays in… by William R. Keast (38 copies)
• Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and… by Patricia Fara (36 copies)
• Our Age: English Intellectuals Between the World Wars : A… by Noel Annan (34 copies)
• Jane Austen and the War of Ideas by Marilyn Butler (30 copies)
• The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and… by Ronald Carter (30 copies)

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