The second common reader / by Virginia Woolf

First Penguin edition. Good paperback copy; edges and cover slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Spine and cover torn. Front cover loose but present. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 206 pages + 2 unnumbered pages publisher's advertisements : frontispiece (portrait) ; 18 cm. Contents; The strange Elizabethans -- Donne after three centuries -- "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" -- "Robinson Crusoe" -- Dorothy Osborne's "Letters" -- Swift's "Journal to Stella" -- The "Sentimental journey" -- Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son -- Two parsons : James Woodforde ; John Skinner -- Dr. Burney's evening party -- Jack Mytton -- De Quincey's autobiography -- Four figures : Cowper and Lady Austen ; Beau Brummell ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Dorothy Wordsworth -- William Hazlitt -- Geraldine and Jane -- "Aurora Leigh" -- The niece of an earl -- George Gissing -- The novels of George Meredith -- "I am Christina Rossetti" -- The novels of Thomas Hardy -- How should one read a book? Subjects; English literature History and criticism. English literature. Literature, Modern History and criticism. Penguin books (series). Prose in English 1900-1945. 1 Kg. …