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The Common Reader First series

Paperback • 1984 • English

The Common Reader First series

By Virginia Woolf

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In Virginia Woolf's first collection of essays, published in 1925, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the 'common reader' - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her father's library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes 'English Literature'. What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial literary and soci...Show more

Literary studies: general
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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ISBN

9780156027786

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

The Common Reader First series

Format

Paperback

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