The Common Reader: First Series

Synopsis

Harpercollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. ‘a good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out’in the first volume of her critical essays, virginia woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon – jane austen, george eliot and geoffrey chaucer among others – with the everyday, ‘common reader’ in mind.