The Common Reader: Volume 1 (Paperback)

Virginia Woolf

ISBN 10: 009944366X / ISBN 13: 9780099443667

Published by Vintage Publishing, London, 2003

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Paperback. Virginia Woolf's first collection of essays demonstrates her eccentric, entertaining brilliance as a literary criticDiscover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries. She was perhaps better able, then, to address a 'common reader' in this wide-ranging collection of essays. With all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius, she turns from medieval England to tsarist Russia, and subjects Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists to her wise, acute and entertaining scrutiny.Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Nancy Mitford, Joseph Conrad, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe and many others. Discover Virginia Woolfs informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Common Reader: Volume 1 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009944366X
• ISBN 13: 9780099443667
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Common Reader

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These are essays of interpretative criticism written by Woolf for the ?common reader? as distinguished from the critic and the scholar. These essays examine medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.