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The Common Reader: Volume 1

The Common Reader: Volume 1( )
Author: Woolf, Virginia
ISBN:978-0-09-944366-7
Publication Date:Feb 2003
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Arrow
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.99
Book Description:

Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond. Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries. She was perhaps better able, then, to address a 'common reader' in this wide-ranging collection of essays. With all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius, she...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Modern / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13 x 20.5 x 2 cm
Book Weight:0.208 Kilograms
Author Biography
Woolf, Virginia (Author)
Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of philosophers, writers, and artists.

During her lifetime, she wrote both fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels included Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts. Her non-fiction books included The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Having had periods of depression throughout her life and fearing a final mental breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf drowned herself on March 28, 1941 at the age of 59. Her husband published part of her farewell letter to deny that she had taken her life because she could not face the terrible times of war.

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