The Common Reader


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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