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The Common Reader

The Common Reader

Woolf, Virginia

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1636373267
ISBN13: 9781636373263
Publisher: Bibliotech Pr
Published: Nov 11 2022
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A far cry from her wistful and introspective fiction, Woolf's essays on literature read as lively, droll, and conversational. These essays focus on famous literary figures as well as the craft of fiction; written in confident but inviting prose designed specifically for what Woolf called the common reader, they interweave biography, wit, social commentary, and literary analysis. Woolf typically seems disinterested in offering definitive arguments or reaching grand conclusions. She instead concerns herself with viewing a given writer or topic from several interpretive angles so that she might reveal as much about her subject as she can in a single essay, to a broad audience consisting of non-academic readers. Favorite essays included Notes on an Elizabethan Play, Modern Fiction, Outlines, and How it Strikes a Contemporary. (Michael)

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