**Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon โ 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 p
THE COMMON READER--SECOND SERIES
โ Scribed by Woolf, Virginia
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
*'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.* So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to Christina Rossetti and Mary
'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge to correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole - a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing.'