The common reader

by Woolf, Virginia

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A collection of critical essays by a 20th century writer whose views on everything were widely read.

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Title Statements

Full title :The common reader. / Virginia Woolf ; edited and introduced by Andrew McNeillie.

Summary

A collection of critical essays by a 20th century writer whose views on everything were widely read.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1984.
Edition:1st Harvest/HBJ ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Place of Publication:San Diego
Language:eng
Publication Date:1984.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1925.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 272 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0156198061, 9780156198066, 015602778X, 9780156027786
oclc:ocm10277712
LC Classification:PR99
Dewey Decimal:820/.9

The common reader -- The Pastons and Chaucer -- On not knowing Greek -- The Elizabethan lumber room -- Notes on an Elizabethan play -- Montaigne -- The Duchess of Newcastle -- Rambling round Evelyn -- Defoe -- Addison -- The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths ; Laetitia Pilkington ; Miss Ormerod -- Jane Austen -- Modern fiction -- "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" -- George Eliot -- The Russian point of view -- Outlines: Miss Mitford ; Dr. Bentley ; Lady Dorothy Nevill ; Archbishop Thomson -- The patron and the crocus -- The modern essay -- Joseph Conrad -- How it strikes a contemporary.