The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
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A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were originally published for the first time in this volume.
"Anything that Virginia Woolf may have to say about letters is of more than ordinary interest, for her peculiar intelligence and informed attitude set her somewhat apart. She possesses the happy faculty simultaneously of enjoying and accepting the work of Daniel De Foe and James Joyce, of Joseph Addison and T.S. Eliot, of Jane Austen and Marcel Proust. Many of these essays are excellent examples of that type of writing which reveals the reactions, nuances, twisting and adventuring threads of thought and surmise which spring from the perusal and spiritual acquisition of other work."
Excerpts from the New York Times Book Review of The Common Reader, May 31, 1925 (9 hr 57 min)
Chapters
The Common Reader | 2:57 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 54:11 | Read by Rita Boutros |
On Not Knowing Greek | 41:26 | Read by Kazbek |
The Elizabethan Lumber Room | 24:18 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Notes on an Elizabethan Play | 29:06 | Read by Hanna Ponomarenko |
Montaigne | 22:32 | Read by Arden |
The Duchess of Newcastle | 22:42 | Read by jenno |
Rambling Round Evelyn | 19:54 | Read by Elin |
Defoe | 21:15 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
Addison | 29:41 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
The Lives of the Obscure | 2:07 | Read by jenno |
I. The Taylors and the Edgeworths | 27:24 | Read by jenno |
II. Laetitia Pilkington | 13:45 | Read by jenno |
III. Miss Ormerod | 24:43 | Read by jenno |
Jane Austen | 31:56 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
Modern Fiction | 18:55 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' | 18:06 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
George Eliot | 28:25 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
The Russian Point of View | 27:44 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
Outlines - I. Miss Mitford | 18:49 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Outlines. II. Dr. Bentley | 15:40 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
Outlines. III. Lady Dorothy Nevill | 12:52 | Read by Greta Buitkute |
Outlines. IV. Archbishop Thomson | 13:01 | Read by Bruce Pirie |
The Patron and the Crocus | 9:19 | Read by Owlivia |
The Modern Essay | 24:22 | Read by Arden |
Joseph Conrad | 20:49 | Read by Rita Boutros |
How It Strikes a Contemporary | 21:39 | Read by Arden |