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THE COMMON READER

BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

“. . . I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the
refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be generally decided all claim to poetical honors.”

DR. JOHNSON, Life of Gray.

New York

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.


TO
LYTTON STRACHEY


Some of these papers appeared originally in the _Times Literary
Supplement_ and the _Dial_. I have to thank the Editors for allowing me
to reprint them here; some are based upon articles written for various
newspapers, while others appear now for the first time.
 

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Contents of this path:

  1. "The Common Reader" (1925) (essay)
  2. The Pastons and Chaucer (1925)
  3. On Not Knowing Greek (1925)
  4. The Elizabethan Lumber Room
  5. Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  6. Montaigne
  7. The Duchess of Newcastle
  8. Rambling Around Evelyn (1920 / 1925)
  9. Defoe (1919/1925)
  10. Addison (1919 / 1925)
  11. The Lives of the Obscure (1925)
  12. Jane Austen
  13. George Eliot
  14. The Russian Point of View
  15. Modern Fiction (1919 / 1925)
  16. Outlines (1925)
  17. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (1916)
  18. The Patron and the Crocus (1925)
  19. The Modern Essay (1925)
  20. Joseph Conrad (1924)
  21. How It Strikes a Contemporary (1925)

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