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10,716 works / 2,198 ebooks Search for books with subject English literature.

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  • The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke by William Shakespeare
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    Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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    Metamorphoses by Ovid
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    Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift
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    The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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    King Lear by William Shakespeare
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    Tempest by William Shakespeare
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    Othello by William Shakespeare
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    Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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    Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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    Twelfth night by William Shakespeare
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Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
William Shakespeare, 27 books
Saintsbury, George, 24 books
F. R. Leavis, 20 books
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 19 books
Hazlitt, William, 18 books
Hippolyte Taine, 17 books
Augustine Birrell, 16 books
Henry Morley, 16 books
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 15 books
Edmund Gosse, 15 books
Maggs Bros., 15 books
Bale, John, 13 books
Campbell, J. F., 13 books
Virginia Woolf, 13 books
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 13 books
Hazlitt, William Carew, 12 books
Voltaire, 12 books
David Daiches, 12 books
E. M. W. Tillyard, 11 books
Walter Bagehot, 11 books
William Makepeace Thackeray, 11 books
Terry Eagleton, 11 books
Watson, George, 11 books
Edmund Blunden, 10 books
Walter F. Schirmer, 10 books

Prominent Publishers

who have published the most books on this subject
Oxford University Press, 366 editions
Cambridge University Press, 298 editions
Macmillan, 295 editions
Palgrave Macmillan, 197 editions
Clarendon Press, 174 editions
Books for Libraries Press, 167 editions
Norwood Editions, 160 editions
Folcroft Library Editions, 155 editions
Routledge, 148 editions
University Press, 106 editions
R. West, 104 editions
St. Martin's Press, 104 editions
AMS Press, 102 editions
Greenwood Press, 98 editions
Sine nomine, 96 editions
Methuen, 93 editions
Ashgate, 85 editions
Dent, 77 editions
Barnes & Noble, 76 editions
Penguin Books, 72 editions

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