The second Common reader

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Virginia Woolf: The second Common reader (1960, Harcourt, Brace and Company)

245 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 1960 by Harcourt, Brace and Company.

OCLC Number:
669340

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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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Subjects

  • Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
  • English literature -- History and criticism