The Common Reader - Second Series (1935) (Annotated)

In The Common Reader: Second Series (1935), Virginia Woolf extends the humane, exploratory criticism of her earlier volume, addressing writers from Donne, Defoe, and Swift to Meredith, Hardy, and contemporary literary culture. These essays are neither academic treatises nor casual reviews: they are supple acts of reading, combining biographical insight, historical imagination, and Woolf's luminous...