The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics)

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out

In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon Jane Austen, George Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer among others with the everyday, common reader in mind. With wit and insight, Woolf also revisits classic novels and examines scholarly subjects, from the Greek language to the Modern Essay, to the Bronts Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

First published in 1925, The Common Reader is a stunning work from one of the most perceptive minds of the twentieth century, a collection which continues to nurture the joys of literature and reading to this day.

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Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of Ones Own.