The Common Reader: "Volume 2"

Do not think, because this collection of essays is titled Volume 2, that there is anything lesser or additional to it. Here is Virginia Woolf at her most entertaining and informative, relishing the portraits and insights she presents as she surveys a varied collection of individuals in English society and English literature.
The subjects range from the Elizabethans to Thomas Hardy, and then concludes, unexpectedly, with `How Should One Read A Book?' Here is one delight after another: twenty-...