Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction (Complete Introductions)
By: Sara Upstone
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
3. Dr. Faustus
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.80
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more
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"Hell is just a frame of mind."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Be silent then, for danger is in words."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
4. A Room of One’s Own
By: Virginia Woolf
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more
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"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
5. All My Sons
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
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6. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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7. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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8. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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9. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
10. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
11. From Doon With Death (Inspector Wexford, #1)
By: Ruth Rendell
3.68
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. Thes… read more
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12. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
By: Jonathan D. Culler
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is L… read more
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13. Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
By: William Barrett
4.56
Format: 200 pages,
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Christopher Barrett (1913-92) introduc… read more
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14. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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15. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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16. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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17. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
18. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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19. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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20. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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21. The Literature Book
By: D.K. Publishing
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A global look at the greatest works of Eastern and Western literature and the themes that unite the… read more
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22. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more
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23. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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24. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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25. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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26. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
27. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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28. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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29. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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30. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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31. Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction (Complete Introductions)
By: Sara Upstone
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write ab… read more
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