โ Scribed by Virginia Woolf
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 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.
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*'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
**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
*'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
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her wor
When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dra
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