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The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
In her second volume of essays, Virginia Woolf delves deeper into the delights of reading. Here, she explores the novels of Thomas Hardy and Daniel Defoe, and recounts the fascinating lives of Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft. In ' How Should One Read a Book?' she offers sage advice for the common reader, and sheds light on the lessons and pleasures literature can provide.
Published in 1932, The Common Reader: Second Series is a wise and illuminating companion collection to her 1925 First Series. Woolf's enduring appeal and ideas continue to resonate with readers in the twenty-first century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- History of William Collins
- Life and Times
- Contents
- Epigraph
- The Strange Elizabethans
- Donne After Three Centuries
- âThe Countess of Pembrokeâs Arcadiaâ
- âRobinson Crusoeâ
- Dorothy Osborneâs âLettersâ
- Swiftâs âJournal to Stellaâ
- The âSentimental Journeyâ
- Lord Chesterfieldâs Letters to His Son
- Two Parsons â
- Dr. Burneyâs Evening Party
- Jack Mytton
- De Quinceyâs Autobiography
- Four Figures â
- William Hazlitt
- Geraldine and Jane
- âAurora Leighâ
- The Niece of an Earl
- George Gissing
- The Novels of George Meredith
- âI am Christina Rossettiâ
- The Novels of Thomas Hardy
- How Should One Read a Book?
- Footnotes
- Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
- About the Publisher