The Common Reader

A 1925 collection of Virginia Woolf's essays on literature and reading, many first published in newspapers and journals. Written for the ordinary reader rather than the scholar, it offers reflections on authors from Chaucer and Montaigne to Jane Austen, Conrad, and George Eliot.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Critical essays on writers and the arts›English and American

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Adults›Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Critical essays on writers and the arts