ENGLISH

Common Reader: First Series

By Virginia , McNeillie , Andrew; Woolf

Book information

Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich;The University of Adelaide Library
Year
1984
ISBN
9780156027786, 015602778X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
252 kB (257609 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Time added
2019-09-24 23:52:42
English literature;History and criticism;English l

Description

What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial literary and social history from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, with an excursion to ancient Greece thrown in. she investigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Vicotiran novelists and modern essayists. When she published this book Woolf's fame as a novelist was already established: now she was hailed as a brilliant interpretative critic. Here, she addresses her 'common reader' in the remarkable prose and with all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius. Woolfs 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;

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