The Common Reader

by Virginia Woolf

First published 1925

Contents

  1. The Common Reader
  2. The Pastons and Chaucer
  3. On Not Knowing Greek
  4. The Elizabethan Lumber Room
  5. Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  6. Montaigne
  7. The Duchess of Newcastle
  8. Rambling Round Evelyn
  9. Defoe
  10. Addison
  11. The Lives of the Obscure — The Taylors And The Edgeworths
  12. The Lives of the Obscure — Laetitia Pilkington
  13. The Lives of the Obscure — Miss Ormerod
  14. Jane Austen
  15. Modern Fiction
  16. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
  17. George Eliot
  18. The Russian Point of View
  19. Outlines — Miss Mitford
  20. Outlines — Dr. Bentley
  21. Outlines — Lady Dorothy Nevill
  22. Outlines — Archbishop Thomson
  23. The Patron and the Crocus
  24. The Modern Essay
  25. Joseph Conrad
  26. How It Strikes a Contemporary

Contents

  1. The Common Reader
  2. The Pastons and Chaucer
  3. On Not Knowing Greek
  4. The Elizabethan Lumber Room
  5. Notes on an Elizabethan Play
  6. Montaigne
  7. The Duchess of Newcastle
  8. Rambling Round Evelyn
  9. Defoe
  10. Addison
  11. The Lives of the Obscure — The Taylors And The Edgeworths
  12. The Lives of the Obscure — Laetitia Pilkington
  13. The Lives of the Obscure — Miss Ormerod
  14. Jane Austen
  15. Modern Fiction
  16. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
  17. George Eliot
  18. The Russian Point of View
  19. Outlines — Miss Mitford
  20. Outlines — Dr. Bentley
  21. Outlines — Lady Dorothy Nevill
  22. Outlines — Archbishop Thomson
  23. The Patron and the Crocus
  24. The Modern Essay
  25. Joseph Conrad
  26. How It Strikes a Contemporary