The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others. 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?
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 — 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
