The Common Reader

Published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932, ‘The Common Reader’ is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf’s everyday thoughts about literature and the world—and the art of reading for pleasure. Woolf outlines her literary ...