The Common Reader: Second Series

'Books are the mirrors of the soul.' The follow up to her enlightening collection of essays which advocate reading for pleasure's sake, The Common Reader: Second Series delves even deeper into the delights literature has to offer, told with Woolf's trademark thoughtfulness and flair. Published seven years after the first instalment, The Common Reader: Second Series explores the works of Thomas Hardy, Laurence Stern and George Eliot, elegantly dissecting the art of the biography and the very...