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)

Capítulos

The Common Reader 2:57 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Pastons and Chaucer 54:11 Leído por Rita Boutros
On Not Knowing Greek 41:26 Leído por Kazbek
The Elizabethan Lumber Room 24:18 Leído por Rita Boutros
Notes on an Elizabethan Play 29:06 Leído por Hanna Ponomarenko
Montaigne 22:32 Leído por Arden
The Duchess of Newcastle 22:42 Leído por jenno
Rambling Round Evelyn 19:54 Leído por Elin
Defoe 21:15 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Addison 29:41 Leído por Bruce Pirie
The Lives of the Obscure 2:07 Leído por jenno
I. The Taylors and the Edgeworths 27:24 Leído por jenno
II. Laetitia Pilkington 13:45 Leído por jenno
III. Miss Ormerod 24:43 Leído por jenno
Jane Austen 31:56 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Modern Fiction 18:55 Leído por J. M. Smallheer
'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' 18:06 Leído por Bruce Pirie
George Eliot 28:25 Leído por Bruce Pirie
The Russian Point of View 27:44 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Outlines - I. Miss Mitford 18:49 Leído por Rita Boutros
Outlines. II. Dr. Bentley 15:40 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Outlines. III. Lady Dorothy Nevill 12:52 Leído por Greta Buitkute
Outlines. IV. Archbishop Thomson 13:01 Leído por Bruce Pirie
The Patron and the Crocus 9:19 Leído por Owlivia
The Modern Essay 24:22 Leído por Arden
Joseph Conrad 20:49 Leído por Rita Boutros
How It Strikes a Contemporary 21:39 Leído por Arden