“The Common Reader is a series of essays on, what else, reading. Beginning with the Greeks and ending with Woolf's contemporaries, the author explores the world of literature, not through the critic's eyes, but through the eyes of the common reader through the ages.

I really, really loved this book! Woolf is absolutely brilliant! She seems have had the ability to take an author, or a group of works, and shine a beam as strong as a laser on the essence of that body of work.

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