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A review by jmoravec
The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Wonderfully written essays on books and literary criticism. For being around 100 years old, the contained writings are extremely readable even to a modern audience, which I think goes to show how well of a write Woolf is and why this is for the "common reader."
My really only issue with the book is that I haven't read many of the works that she discusses within, so it can be hard to fully grasp what her goal is in the essay sometimes. Some day I'll have to come back to this book after I've read a lot more classics.
My really only issue with the book is that I haven't read many of the works that she discusses within, so it can be hard to fully grasp what her goal is in the essay sometimes. Some day I'll have to come back to this book after I've read a lot more classics.