COMMON READER_CLASSICS EB
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COMMON READER_CLASSICS EB

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COMMON READER_CLASSICS EB

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

'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 Brontë's 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. History of William Collins
  7. Life and Times
  8. The Common Reader
  9. The Pastons and Chaucer
  10. On Not Knowing Greek
  11. The Elizabethan Lumber Room
  12. Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  13. Montaigne
  14. The Duchess of Newcastle
  15. Rambling Round Evelyn
  16. Defoe
  17. Addison
  18. The Lives of the Obscure —
  19. Jane Austen
  20. Modern Fiction
  21. “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights”
  22. George Eliot
  23. The Russian Point of View
  24. Outlines —
  25. The Patron and the Crocus
  26. The Modern Essay
  27. Joseph Conrad
  28. How it Strikes a Contemporary
  29. Footnotes
  30. Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
  31. About the Publisher