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GenresLiterature Studies and Criticism

Selected Works (208,473)

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom by Jane Smiley

Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey by David Damrosch

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell

Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms by Perry Anderson

Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation by Nancy Schoenberger

Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality (Library of Ottoman Studies) by Feras Alkabani

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Related MDS

809 LiteratureBy TopicHistory, description and criticism of more than two literatures

820.9 LiteratureEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish literature in more than one formHistory, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form

810.9 LiteratureEnglish (North America)American literatureHistory and criticism of American literature

823 LiteratureEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction

Related LC Classifications

PR0-10000. English Literature

PN1-6790. Literature (General)

PN45-57. Theory. Philosophy. Esthetics

PS1-3576. American literature

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