The Common Reader: First Series

Woolf, Virginia

ISBN 10: 0008542139 / ISBN 13: 9780008542139

Published by William Collins & Sons Ltd, 2024

About this Item

288 pages. 7.00x4.38x0.69 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Common Reader: First Series
• Publisher: William Collins & Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008542139
• ISBN 13: 9780008542139
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.27 kilograms

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Synopsis

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

‘A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out’

In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon – Jane Austen, George Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer among others – with the everyday, ‘common reader’ in mind. With wit and insight, Woolf also revisits classic novels and examines scholarly subjects, from the Greek language to the Modern Essay, to the Brontė’s Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

First published in 1925, The Common Reader is a stunning work from one of the most perceptive minds of the twentieth century, a collection which continues to nurture the joys of literature and reading to this day.

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own.