The second common reader / by Virginia Woolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 295 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Rahway, N.J. : Printed in the United States of America by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.

Other Title:

Common reader. Second series

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1932]

Contents:

The strange Elizabethans

Donne after three centuries

"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia"

"Robinson Crusoe"

Dorothy Osborne's "Letters"

Swift's "Journal to Stella"

The "Sentimental Journey"

Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son

Two Parsons: I. James Woodforde; II. John Skinner

Dr. Burney's evening party

Jack Mytton

De Quincey's autobiography

Four Figures: I. Cowper and Lady Austen; II. Beau Brummell; III. Mary Wollstonecraft; IV. Dorothy Wordsworth

William Hazlitt

Geraldine and Jane

"Aurora Leigh"

The niece of an Earl

George Gissing

The novels of George Meredith

"I am Christina Rossetti"

The novels of Thomas Hardy

How should one read a book?

Notes:

With half-title.

London edition (L. & Virginia Woolf) has title: The common reader. Second series.

"Copyright, 1932, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc."

"First printing."--T.p. verso.

"Typography by Robert S. Josephy."

Blue cloth boards; lettered in gilt on spine. Front cover has double-rule and publisher's monograph stamped in blind.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has marginal marks.

OCLC:

327479