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The Second Common Reader
Virginia Woolf · 1925 · 288 pages
History and criticismEnglish literatureModern LiteratureLiterature, modern, history and criticismEnglish literature, history and criticism
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Contains 26 essays on aspects of English literature. Among her subjects are the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Christina Rossetti. She also reflects on the poetry of John Donne; the works of Daniel Defoe, Lawrence Sterne, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters; and Thomas De Quincey’s autobiography. Noteworthy too is the last essay, "How Should One Read a Book?".
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