The Common Reader


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A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were originally published for the first time in this volume.

"Anything that Virginia Woolf may have to say about letters is of more than ordinary interest, for her peculiar intelligence and informed attitude set her somewhat apart. She possesses the happy faculty simultaneously of enjoying and accepting the work of Daniel De Foe and James Joyce, of Joseph Addison and T.S. Eliot, of Jane Austen and Marcel Proust. Many of these essays are excellent examples of that type of writing which reveals the reactions, nuances, twisting and adventuring threads of thought and surmise which spring from the perusal and spiritual acquisition of other work."
Excerpts from the New York Times Book Review of The Common Reader, May 31, 1925 (9 hr 57 min)

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The Common Reader 2:57 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Pastons and Chaucer 54:11 Gelesen von Rita Boutros
On Not Knowing Greek 41:26 Gelesen von Kazbek
The Elizabethan Lumber Room 24:18 Gelesen von Rita Boutros
Notes on an Elizabethan Play 29:06 Gelesen von Hanna Ponomarenko
Montaigne 22:32 Gelesen von Arden
The Duchess of Newcastle 22:42 Gelesen von jenno
Rambling Round Evelyn 19:54 Gelesen von Elin
Defoe 21:15 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
Addison 29:41 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
The Lives of the Obscure 2:07 Gelesen von jenno
I. The Taylors and the Edgeworths 27:24 Gelesen von jenno
II. Laetitia Pilkington 13:45 Gelesen von jenno
III. Miss Ormerod 24:43 Gelesen von jenno
Jane Austen 31:56 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
Modern Fiction 18:55 Gelesen von J. M. Smallheer
'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' 18:06 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
George Eliot 28:25 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
The Russian Point of View 27:44 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
Outlines - I. Miss Mitford 18:49 Gelesen von Rita Boutros
Outlines. II. Dr. Bentley 15:40 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
Outlines. III. Lady Dorothy Nevill 12:52 Gelesen von Greta Buitkute
Outlines. IV. Archbishop Thomson 13:01 Gelesen von Bruce Pirie
The Patron and the Crocus 9:19 Gelesen von Owlivia
The Modern Essay 24:22 Gelesen von Arden
Joseph Conrad 20:49 Gelesen von Rita Boutros
How It Strikes a Contemporary 21:39 Gelesen von Arden