Ebook: Common Reader: First Series

What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial
literary and social history from the fourteenth to the twentieth
century, with an excursion to ancient Greece thrown in. she investigates
medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Vicotiran
novelists and modern essayists. When she published this book Woolf's
fame as a novelist was already established: now she was hailed as a
brilliant interpretative critic. Here, she addresses her 'common reader'
in the remarkable prose and with all the imagination and gaiety that
are the stamp of her genius.