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The Common Reader: Volume 1
Virginia Woolf
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Description for The Common Reader: Volume 1
Paperback. Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the "common reader", someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon – 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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099443667
SKU
V9780099443667
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About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and ... Read more
Reviews for The Common Reader: Volume 1
Her essays are delightful in the way that serious play is delightful. She is enjoying herself, and reading her gives me that leaping sense of being in excellent company
Jeanette Winterson
The Times
More like novels than ordinary criticism
New Statesman
Woolf was easily the greatest literary journalist of her age
James Wood,
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Jeanette Winterson
The Times
More like novels than ordinary criticism
New Statesman
Woolf was easily the greatest literary journalist of her age
James Wood,
... Read more