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The Common Reader eBook Series

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  • The Common Reader

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series Book 1 - The Common Reader
    A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Mrs. Dalloway on such subjects as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, and her own literary philosophy.A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf's everyday thoughts about ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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  • The Common Reader, Second Series

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    The Common Reader, collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. Most of the essays appeared originally in such publications as the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Athenæum, New Statesman, Life and Letters, Dial, Vogue, and The Yale Review. The title indicates Woolf’s intention that her essays be read by the “common reader” who ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Delphi Classics)

    by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 12 - Delphi Poets Series
    Gerard Manley Hopkins' experimental use of prosody and imagery has earned him the posthumous fame of being a daring innovator in a period dominated by traditional verse. The Delphi Poets Series edition of Hopkins offers the complete poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and a treasure trove of prose works to complement the poetry. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

    by Charles Lamb ...
    Lamb's greatest work. According to Wikipedia: "Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English/Welsh essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (17641847). Lamb has been referred to by E.V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable figure in English ... Read more

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  • A Room Of One's Own

    The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series Book 23 - The Virginia Woolf Library
    Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon. ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Eight Books of Essays, Reviews, and Lectures

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    This collection includes: Shorter ProsePieces, A Critic in Pall Masll, Essays and Lectures, Intentions, The Soul of Man, Miscellanies, Reviews, and Selected Prose. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights ... Read more

    $1.15 USD

  • Quality And Other Studies And Essays

    by John, 1867-1933 Galsworthy ...

    Free

  • The Prince of Minor Writers

    The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

    by Max Beerbohm ...
    AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALVirginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his “whim of iron” and “cleverness amounting to genius,” while Beerbohm himself noted that “only the insane take themselves quite seriously.” From his precocious debut as a dandy in 1890s Oxford until he put his pen aside in the aftermath of World War II, Beerbohm was recognized as an ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Art Of Writing And Other Essays

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

    Free

  • A Critic In Pall Mall

    by Oscar Wilde ...

    Free

  • On Reading, Writing and Living with Books

    by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt ...
    Series Book 6 - The London Library
    The London Library is the world's largest independent library. Founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle (in reaction to the "museum headache" brought on by the crowds in the British Museum Reading Room), it has become a haven for readers, writers and all who draw strength, solace or inspiration from the presence of books. Some of the most illustrious figures of the last two centuries have written, ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Works of Max Beerbohm

    by Max Sir Beerbohm ...
    How very delightful Grego's drawings are! For all their mad perspective and crude colour, they have indeed the sentiment of style, and they reveal, with surer delicacy than does any other record, the spirit of Mr. Brummell's day. Grego guides me, as Virgil Dante, through all the mysteries of that other world. He shows me those stiff-necked, over-hatted, wasp-waisted gentlemen, drinking Burgundy in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD