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

Named for Dr. Johnson's "common reader," Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader: First Series (1925) gathers essays that move freely across English and European literature, from Chaucer, Montaigne, and Defoe to Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Russian novelists. Its style is agile, intimate, and exploratory: Woolf replaces pedantic judgment with an art of responsive reading, blending biography, quot...