The Common Reader: Volume 1
$37.53
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2003
Summary
Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays demonstrates her eccentric, entertaining brilliance as a literary critic.
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-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099443667 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009944366X |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2003 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Critics Review
It is all pure Woolf, so distinctive is her voice - ironic, cool, conversational and playful, shrewd and fantastical by turns
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, * Guardian *
It is all pure Woolf, so distinctive is her voice - ironic, cool, conversational and playful, shrewd and fantastical by turns – Literary Review
About The Author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.
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