The Common Reader - Vintage Classics

Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries. She was perhaps better able, then, to address a 'common reader' in this wide-ranging collection of essays. With all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius, she turns from medieval England to tsarist Russia, and subjects Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists to her wise, acute and entertaining scrutiny.Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Nancy Mitford, Joseph Conrad, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe and many others.

ISBN:	9780099443667
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	02 Jan 2003
DEWEY:	820.9
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	208g
Height:	198mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	18mm

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