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The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 200 pages

The Common Reader is a collection of Virginia Woolf's essays on literature and reading, published in 1925. She discusses writers such as Chaucer, Montaigne, Defoe, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, as well as modern fiction. It is worth listening to for its accessible, personal tone that encourages a love of reading.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE COMMON READER
  2. LYTTON STRACHEY
  3. CONTENTS
  4. THE COMMON READER
  5. The Common Reader
  6. The Pastons and Chaucer[1]
  7. On Not Knowing Greek
  8. The Elizabethan Lumber Room
  9. Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  10. Montaigne
  11. The Duchess of Newcastle[4]
  12. Rambling Round Evelyn
  13. Defoe[6]
  14. Addison[7]
  15. The Lives of the Obscure
  16. I THE TAYLORS AND THE EDGEWORTHS
  17. II LAETITIA PILKINGTON
  18. III MISS ORMEROD[8]
  19. Jane Austen
  20. Modern Fiction
  21. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights[11]
  22. George Eliot
  23. The Russian Point of View
  24. Outlines I MISS MITFORD
  25. II DR. BENTLEY
  26. III LADY DOROTHY NEVILL
  27. IV ARCHBISHOP THOMSON
  28. The Patron and the Crocus
  29. The Modern Essay
  30. Joseph Conrad[14]

and 2 more chapters

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