The Common Reader - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141389893 ISBN 13: 9780141389899

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

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The Common Reader is a compilation of twenty-five witty, charming essays on such diverse subjects as Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and the Classical Greek dramatists. In her first collected writings, Virginia Woolf guides the 'common reader' through the joys and power of the written word through the ages, with wisdom, humour and understanding.

About this title

About the Author

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was a major modernist novelist and the centre of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves. She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including A Room of One's Own (1929), a passionate feminist essay. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141389893
• ISBN 13: 9780141389899
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240