The common reader / by Virginia Woolf.

Author/creator Woolf, Virginia
Other author Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 former owner.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Harcourt, Brace and company, [©1925]
Description332 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.

Contents The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.-- Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn.--Defoe.-- Addison.--The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.--Jane Austen.--Modern fiction.--"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights".--George Eliot.--The Russian point of view.--Outlines: Miss Mitford. Dr. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.--The patron and the crocus.--The modern essay.--Joseph Conrad.--How it strikes a contemporary.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy autographed on front fly-leaf "Robert Penn Warren November 22, 1926." Passages marked throughout text. Stuart Wright Book Collection #13.28. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
LCCN 25010098

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Joyner General Stacks PN511 .W7 1925 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PN511 .W7 1925 ✔ Available Request Material