Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.
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The Common Reader
The Pastons and Chaucer
On not knowing Greek
The Elizabethan Lumber Room
Notes on an Elizabethan Play
Montaigne
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The Common Reader
The Pastons and Chaucer
On not knowing Greek
The Elizabethan Lumber Room
Notes on an Elizabethan Play
Montaigne
The Duchess of Newcastle
Rambling round Evelyn
Defoe
Addison
Lives of the Obscure-
I. Taylors and Edgeworths
II. Laetitia Pilkington
Jane Austen
Modern Fiction
"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"
George Eliot
The Russian Point of View
Outlines-
I. Miss Mitford
II. Dr. Bentley
III. Lady Dorothy Nevill
IV. Archbishop Thomson
The Patron and the Crocus
The Modern Essay
Joseph Conrad
How it strikes a Contemporary
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The common reader, as Dr. Johnson implies, differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole — a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing (查看原文)
“if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no come...“if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style…”(展开)
这个译本是所有译本里最好、最完整的，几乎全译了 The Common Reader I，II 的全部内容，只缺一篇。 The Common Reader I The Common Reader The Pastons and Chaucer On Not Knowing Greek The Elizabethan Lumber Room Notes on an Elizabethan Play Montaigne The Duchess ...
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The Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our book under our arms,"Look, these need no reward, We have nothing to give them here. They have loves reading. "万能的上帝看见我们胳肢窝里夹着我们心爱的书...
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0 有用 ROOT1886 2023-05-23 20:45:51 上海
选读其中熟悉的几位，作为与当代review的对照，评Brontë那篇最有趣（大概因为作者与她们的接近性）。
0 有用 拉拉要淡定 2011-04-19 16:54:52
Though sometimes it was hard to catch the point in the passage, it was really a good review especially the deep insight about the writer.
3 有用 你和你一路货色 2018-07-17 11:04:13
扎实无比的文字功底，且这位小妞极其坚持自己。四星半。
0 有用 _LIMBO_ 2023-12-25 14:29:30 广东
（我是文盲。）
0 有用 红杯杯海啸 2019-09-21 17:07:56
"On Not Knowing Greek"; "Modern Fiction"; "The Russian Point of View"
0 有用 未晚 2024-04-22 14:53:40 湖北
“if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no come... “if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style…” (展开)
0 有用 m_scriblerus 2024-02-07 12:17:18 美国
a book that should be universally read, and a practice that should be universally followed
0 有用 _LIMBO_ 2023-12-25 14:29:30 广东
（我是文盲。）
0 有用 一箭如故 2023-06-10 15:54:56 四川
@2018-01-23 01:47
0 有用 ROOT1886 2023-05-23 20:45:51 上海
选读其中熟悉的几位，作为与当代review的对照，评Brontë那篇最有趣（大概因为作者与她们的接近性）。