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The Second Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

1932270 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1932
first published
  • 1932Hogarth Press · 270 pages · ENGISBN 9780701202644
  • 1984Hogarth Press · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780701219147
  • 1986Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 330 pages · ENGISBN 9780156198080
  • 1986Hogarth Press · 330 pages · ENGISBN 9780701219086
  • 1984Harvest Books · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780156198066
  • 2003VINTAGE (RAND) · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780099443674
  • 2003Harvest Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780156028165
  • 2002Harvest/HBJ Book · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780156027786

Contains 26 essays on aspects of English literature. Among her subjects are the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Christina Rossetti. She also reflects on the poetry of John Donne; the works of Daniel Defoe, Lawrence Sterne, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters; and Thomas De Quincey’s autobiography. Noteworthy too is the last essay, "How Should One Read a Book?".

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