Subject: Literature, Modern History and criticism

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• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (2,624 copies)
• Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily… by Camille Paglia (1,885 copies)
• Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag (1,624 copies)
• The Common Reader: First Series by Virginia Woolf (986 copies)
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby (819 copies)
• The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha (744 copies)
• Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of… by Edmund Wilson (604 copies)
• The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf (550 copies)
• Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille (452 copies)
• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag (382 copies)
• Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike (339 copies)
• The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz (326 copies)
• Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930… by Malcolm Bradbury (314 copies)
• Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said (305 copies)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis (296 copies)
• Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha (295 copies)
• Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran (262 copies)
• The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass (238 copies)
• Literature and Western Man by J. B. Priestley (229 copies)
• Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein (221 copies)
• Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s &… by Edmund Wilson (208 copies)
• Nation and narration by Homi K. Bhabha (198 copies)
• Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and… by Hannah Arendt (197 copies)
• Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s &… by Edmund Wilson (194 copies)
• A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us… by Arnold Weinstein (173 copies)
• The Semiotic Challenge by Roland Barthes (163 copies)
• Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R.… by Rolland Hein (161 copies)
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties… by Edmund Wilson (156 copies)
• In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad (129 copies)
• Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth (127 copies)
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers by Malcolm Bradbury (122 copies)
• The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and… by Ruth R. Wisse (109 copies)
• Readings by Sven Birkerts (109 copies)
• Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the… by Edmund Wilson (108 copies)
• The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick (108 copies)
• The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (104 copies)
• Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science… by N. Katherine Hayles (102 copies)
• Postcolonial Theory by Leela Gandhi (98 copies)
• Time and Western Man by Wyndham Lewis (95 copies)
• Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs (93 copies)
• Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language… by George Steiner (90 copies)
• The Enchafed Flood or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea by W. H. Auden (87 copies)
• The Common Reader, First and Second Series by Virginia Woolf (84 copies)
• Crack Wars: LITERATURE ADDICTION MANIA (Texts and Contexts) by Avital Ronell (84 copies)
• On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz (82 copies)
• The Triple Thinkers by Edmund Wilson (82 copies)
• The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism (Trilling,… by Lionel Trilling (76 copies)
• Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary… by Will Durant (75 copies)
• Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts (74 copies)
• The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton (New Directions… by Thomas Merton (73 copies)

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