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Virginia Woolf
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An edition of The Second Common Reader (1925)

The Common Reader

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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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Subjects
History and criticism, English literature, Modern Literature, Literature, modern, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Dorothy Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Lawrence Sterne, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Lord Chesterfield, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabethans

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The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition
January 13, 2003, Harvest Books
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The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
November 4, 2002, Harvest/HBJ Book
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The second common reader
1986, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
April 1984, Harvest Books
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The common reader.
1984, Harcourt, Inc.
in English - 1st Harvest ed.
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The Second Common reader.
1960, Harcourt, Brace
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The Common Reader : First Series
June 1955, Harcourt
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The common reader: first and second series.
1948, Harcourt, Brace
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The common reader
1925, Harcourt, Brace and company
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""There is a sentence in Dr Johnson's Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people.""

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OL7365872M
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0156198053
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9780156198059
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46499
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