The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008658455 ISBN 13: 9780008658458

Publisher: William Collins, 2024

Synopsis

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The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

In her second volume of essays, Virginia Woolf delves deeper into the delights of reading. Here, she explores the novels of Thomas Hardy and Daniel Defoe, and recounts the fascinating lives of Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft. In ‘ How Should One Read a Book?’ she offers sage advice for the common reader, and sheds light on the lessons and pleasures literature can provide.

Published in 1932, The Common Reader: Second Series is a wise and illuminating companion collection to her 1925 First Series. Woolf’s enduring appeal and ideas continue to resonate with readers in the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008658455
• ISBN 13: 9780008658458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320