books about literature

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Great if you want to get a brisk overview of English literature in all its many forms. published 1953, avg rating 4.08 — “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”, “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”, avg rating 3.92 — 2,744,684 ratings — 863,799 ratings — 1 person liked it, 22 chapters — I’d rather read about a city than visit it. No literary year is complete without a volume from the astonishingly prolific Michael Dirda, the longtime columnist for The Washington Post, and this August he offers Browsings, a collection of weekly pieces he did for The American Scholar. Listopia > Literature Book Lists.


430,385 ratings — Unable to consign the statement to the witticism and irony drawer outright, I set about attempting a series of contortions whereby I could read the sentences in the context of the story and yet get round having to deal with their implications… At any rate, [the character] Suwen couldn’t seriously mean ‘all’ Brits were racist. To Kill a Mockingbird book. Pingback: Saturday Miscellany – 3/21/15 | The Irresponsible Reader. published 1937, avg rating 4.09 — 1,371,397 ratings — Image (bottom): The Great Books of the Western World, Wikimedia Commons. 2,060,446 ratings — Dusty California, a dream of a better life, hand-to-mouth labor, and a tragedy you’ll never forget. It’s a collection of essays revolving around the book world.

The literary Internet’s most important stories, every day. Next up is J. Peder Zane’s Off the Books, which collects 13 years of his columns and reviews at Raleigh’s News & Observer. 0 people liked it, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover), The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback).

Parks asks deceptively simple questions like “Why finish books?” and “What’s wrong with the Nobel?” and “Does copyright matter?” and answers them in thoughtful, informative prose, condensing complicated issues to succinct sentences. 210,655 ratings — 732,466 ratings — But what makes Off the Books so enjoyable is Zane’s unimpeachable passion for literature, for ideas, and for honestly endeavoring into both.

published 1867, avg rating 4.01 — He celebrates the annual Used Book Sale at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, wonders if David Foster Wallace fans are aware of his many contributions to The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, and writes in praise of small presses like Ash-Tree Press and Night Shade Books. published 1879, avg rating 3.51 — Thanks so much for sharing! B. Ifor Evans, A Short History Of English Literature. 1,466,609 ratings — published 1939, avg rating 3.82 — This recent book introduces us to a range of authors, including many popular novelists, whose names may once have been well-known to the reading public, but are now largely forgotten. 2,269,879 ratings — published 1899, avg rating 4.07 — (Oxford World’s Classics), Oxford World’s Classics: Henry V, War Criminal? There are also thoughtful pieces on Eudora Welty and Ralph Ellison and Robert Penn Warren, as well as wider-ranging essays on culture (some of which, like a couple of the post-9/11 pieces, haven’t aged particularly well). The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, Title Deeds: The Hidden Stories Behind 50 Books, Why Not Catch-21? 585,261 ratings — A classic for a reason – Steinbeck’s George and Lennie loom large in American literature. Pingback: The Booketry » 10 of the Best Books about Literature. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: An Introduction. I’m going to end with Melissa Pritchard’s A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write. John Leonard’s Reading for My Life is a treasured volume for me, as are Edmund Wilson’s Axel’s Castle, Janet Malcolm’s Forty-one False Starts, Hilton Als’s White Girls, James Wood’s The Fun Stuff, Christopher Hitchens’ Unacknowledged Legislation, John Updike’s Due Considerations, Joyce Carol Oates’s In Rough Country, Geoff Dyer’s Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, and Zadie Smith’s Changing My Mind. He is also a second-rate novelist.” And what a joy it was for me to find that Zane also adored Thomas Pynchon’s unjustly dismissed Against the Day, which Zane calls “magnificent” and “riotous.” The section on Southern Writing Lives, featuring a long, fantastic essay on Faulkner, is especially good. These short essays find Dirda in a lighter, more personal mode than he often is, since he was pretty much given carte blanche with his assignment. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Rebecca Solnit: Our First Black Woman President Is Here, In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies… and His Verbs, The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World, Growing Up in the Soviet Union's Hero City, Five Books That Have Helped to Define Flash Nonfiction, The Most Unusual Murder Weapons in Crime Fiction, 5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in November, Let's Explore a Complicated Thriller Archetype: The Femme Fatale. They can cut, bruise, and disfigure us from the inside, but they can also alleviate, restore, and heal. : and Other Shakespeare Puzzles, is also worth checking out. 748,710 ratings — 1,153,946 ratings — published 1985, avg rating 3.90 — An engaging book full of fascinating information about some of the world’s classic books, and the stories behind how they came to be called what they’re called. Whether it’s a history of a particular book (like Maureen Corrigan’s wonderful So We Read On) or a particular publisher (like Boris Kachka’s fascinating Hothouse) or a particular writer’s work (like Claudia Roth Pierpont’s brilliant Roth Unbound) or a particular group of writers (like Christopher Bram’s illuminating Eminent Outlaws), I’m all over it. : Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-century Fiction (World’s Classics), Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?

As if that’s not enough, the book’s design is a work of art, with the die-cut keyhole cover making the book an ideal gift for the book-lover. published 1605, avg rating 3.82 — 3,788,415 ratings — In “Spirit and Vision,” Pritchard scrutinizes Walt Whitman’s “audacious experiment with language,” 1855’s Leaves of Grass, and espouses “art as a form of active prayer.” She aligns herself with “William Blake, George Sand, Annie Dillard, Rilke, Keats, and many others.” Though I’m not personally prone to transcendental thinking, Pritchard’s writing is inspiring. (Oxford World’s Classics). 10 great books for literature-lovers, from surveys of English literature to treasure-troves of trivia. published 1811, avg rating 4.11 — Here he is on the Nobel Prize for Literature: Let’s pause for a moment, here, and imagine our Swedish professors, called to uphold the purity of the Swedish language, as they compare a poet from Indonesia, perhaps translated into English, a novelist from Cameroon, perhaps only available in French, and another who writes in Afrikaans but is published in German and Dutch, and then a towering celebrity like Philip Roth, who they could of course read in English, but might equally feel tempted, if only out of a sense of exhaustion, to look at it in Swedish. Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. Wood is particularly good at saying why a piece of fiction is good (and why other pieces of fiction aren’t good), and his gentle but informed focus on the technical details of writing prevents his value-judgments from ever reading too much like ‘This is good because I like it.’ Wood is also a mean finger-drummer, as demonstrated in this video. 943,927 ratings — : More Puzzles in Classic Fiction (Oxford World’s Classics), and Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? 265,862 ratings — Riddled with typos, but if you can put up with them, this book is illuminating and entertaining. Literature is the world’s shared, shaky wisdom, its soul. But The Secret Library is a treasure-trove of trivia for the literature-lover. 1,687,255 ratings — 725,062 ratings — published 1955, avg rating 4.05 —

More than friends (sorry, everyone). An accessible introduction to key aspects of fiction from one of the most celebrated living critics of the novel. published 1922, avg rating 4.00 — The titles of the three books in this original trilogy give a sense of the sort of questions Sutherland likes to ask: Is Heathcliff a Murderer? 665,126 ratings — published 1925, avg rating 4.28 —

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