WOOLF, Virginia.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Common Reader: Second Series. First edition, an exceptionally bright example, with a Hogarth Press advertisement for the works of Virginia Woolf loosely inserted. This copy is the second and last instalment in the Common Reader series, following that of 1925. Woolf's writing was always "permeated with her reading" and in these essays she explores the works of many great authors alongside the context of their lives (Lee, p. 405). These previously published essays come together to reveal the strength of her literary criticism and analytical mind. The volume culminates in the influential and aptly titled "How should one read a book?", in which Woolf details the process of reading as she perceives it, and the space it should occupy in the life of the so-called 'Common Reader'.

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