THE COMMON READER (1935)

The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others. CONTENTS:THE STRANGE ELIZABETHANSDONNE AFTER THREE CENTURIES"THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S ARCADIA""ROBINSON CRUSOE"DOROTHY OSBORNE'S "LETTERS"SWIFT'S "JOURNAL TO STELLA"THE "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY"LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SONTWO PARSONS: JAMES WOODFORDE; JOHN SKINNERDR. BURNEY'S EVENING PARTYJACK MYTTONDE QUINCEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHYFOUR FIGURES: COWPER AND LADY AUSTEN; BEAU BRUMMELL; MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT; DOROTHY WORDSWORTHWILLIAM HAZLITTGERALDINE AND JANE"AURORA LEIGH"THE NIECE OF AN EARLGEORGE GISSINGTHE NOVELS OF GEORGE MEREDITH"I AM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI"THE NOVELS OF THOMAS HARDYHOW SHOULD ONE READ A BOOK?Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.