The Common Reader - First Series (1925) (Annotated)

Published in 1925, The Common Reader: First Series gathers Virginia Woolf's incisive essays on writers ranging from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the neglected women and minor figures of literary history. Neither conventional academic criticism nor casual reviewing, the collection treats reading as an imaginative, historical, and morally serious encounter. Woolf's suppl...