The common reader. First series

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Title:

The common reader. First series

Author:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

ISBN:

9780156027786

Edition:

First Harvest Edition, 1984.

Publication Information:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

Physical Description:

xv, 272 p. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1925.

Includes index.

Contents:

The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.--Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn.--Defoe.--Addison.--The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.--Jane Austen.--Modern fiction.--"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights".--George Eliot.--The Russian point of view.--Outlines: Miss Mitford. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.--The patron and the crocus.--The modern essay.--Joseph Conrad.--How it strikes a contemporary.

Subject Term:

English literature -- History and criticism.

Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.

Added Author:

McNeillie, Andrew.

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Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay." Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.

Author Notes

Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of philosophers, writers, and artists.

During her lifetime, she wrote both fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels included Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts. Her non-fiction books included The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Having had periods of depression throughout her life and fearing a final mental breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf drowned herself on March 28, 1941 at the age of 59. Her husband published part of her farewell letter to deny that she had taken her life because she could not face the terrible times of war.

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