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The Second Common Reader.
by Woolf, Virginia
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First edition of the second collection of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Woolf's second collection of critical writings, this volume contains twenty-six essays on the most brilliant figures in three centuries of English literature ranging from the magnificent Jack Mytton, and Mary, the high-handed, hot-blooded wife of Shelley, to the little, whimsical, religious Christina Rossetti and the bedeviled George Gissing. Other essays critique the work and character of Defoe, Swift, Hazlitt, Hardy, and Meredith.
Synopsis
Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De Quincey’s autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132047
- Title
- The Second Common Reader.
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- The Second Common Reader First Edition, Virginia Woolf First Edition Signed
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