The Common Reader

Pelican Book A36. 1st Edition, published 1938.

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 turns from medieval England to tsarist Russia, and subjects Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists to her wise, acute and entertaining scrutiny.

Condition grading: Good. Pen name to inside front cover. Light foxing to front cover. Some wear to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.