The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
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A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were originally published for the first time in this volume.
"Anything that Virginia Woolf may have to say about letters is of more than ordinary interest, for her peculiar intelligence and informed attitude set her somewhat apart. She possesses the happy faculty simultaneously of enjoying and accepting the work of Daniel De Foe and James Joyce, of Joseph Addison and T.S. Eliot, of Jane Austen and Marcel Proust. Many of these essays are excellent examples of that type of writing which reveals the reactions, nuances, twisting and adventuring threads of thought and surmise which spring from the perusal and spiritual acquisition of other work."
Excerpts from the New York Times Book Review of The Common Reader, May 31, 1925 (9 hr 57 min)
Chapitres
The Common Reader | 2:57 | Lu par Alan Mapstone |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 54:11 | Lu par Rita Boutros |
On Not Knowing Greek | 41:26 | Lu par Kazbek |
The Elizabethan Lumber Room | 24:18 | Lu par Rita Boutros |
Notes on an Elizabethan Play | 29:06 | Lu par Hanna Ponomarenko |
Montaigne | 22:32 | Lu par Arden |
The Duchess of Newcastle | 22:42 | Lu par jenno |
Rambling Round Evelyn | 19:54 | Lu par Elin |
Defoe | 21:15 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
Addison | 29:41 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
The Lives of the Obscure | 2:07 | Lu par jenno |
I. The Taylors and the Edgeworths | 27:24 | Lu par jenno |
II. Laetitia Pilkington | 13:45 | Lu par jenno |
III. Miss Ormerod | 24:43 | Lu par jenno |
Jane Austen | 31:56 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
Modern Fiction | 18:55 | Lu par J. M. Smallheer |
'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' | 18:06 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
George Eliot | 28:25 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
The Russian Point of View | 27:44 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
Outlines - I. Miss Mitford | 18:49 | Lu par Rita Boutros |
Outlines. II. Dr. Bentley | 15:40 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
Outlines. III. Lady Dorothy Nevill | 12:52 | Lu par Greta Buitkute |
Outlines. IV. Archbishop Thomson | 13:01 | Lu par Bruce Pirie |
The Patron and the Crocus | 9:19 | Lu par Owlivia |
The Modern Essay | 24:22 | Lu par Arden |
Joseph Conrad | 20:49 | Lu par Rita Boutros |
How It Strikes a Contemporary | 21:39 | Lu par Arden |