Literary Criticism - Page 6

Mark Twain

Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity sp...

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Horace: Poet on a Volcano

A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man...

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Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

An alternative biography of Shakespeare seen through the lens of queer Elizabethan England. From...

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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbur...

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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century—an ingeniously plott...

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On Goethe

On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern G...

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Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescue...

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The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare

“One of the most exciting and original books about Shakespeare that I’ve read in years.”—James Shapi...

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Vergil: The Poet's Life

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid “Ms. Ruden ha...

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Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks

“Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its...

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In Praise of Good Bookstores

One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year Winner of the Heartland Booksellers Award in...

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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eightee...

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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843

One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of...

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Literature’s Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape

In 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians an...

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Unpacking My Library: Benjamin Walter (Penguin Archive)

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books ‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos,...

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