The Complete Common Reader: First & Second Series (1925 & 1935) (Annotated)

Gathering the essays of The Common Reader (1925) and The Common Reader: Second Series (1935), this volume presents Virginia Woolf's most elegant meditations on reading as an art of freedom, curiosity, and cultivated pleasure. Moving from Chaucer, Montaigne, and Defoe to Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, and modern letters, Woolf writes with a supple, conversational brilliance that conceals...