The Common Reader: Second Series

Woolf, Virginia

Edité par London: Hogarth Press, 1932

First edition, first printing. One of 3200 copies. Publisher's bright jade-green cloth boards with spine in gilt; in its original dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with a figure seated in a chair to front panel, printed in vermilion and azure (orange and blue). Near fine book, with light toning to spine and board edges, bright spine gilt, light spotting to top edge and a few pages near front, and light offsetting to endpapers; good dust jacket, with heavy fading to the blue on the spine, some shallow chipping to spine ends, some toning and soiling to spine and panels, a vertical crease along left edge of front panel, light rippling to rear panel and flaps, a few small closed tears to edges, some yellowing tape to edges of jacket verso, and lightly nicked corners. With Hogarth Press' "The Works of Virginia Woolf" promotional pamphlet laid in. Overall, a sturdy copy. Kirkpatrick A18a. Woolmer 315. The Common Reader: Second Series is a collection of twenty-six essays written by Virginia Woolf in an accessible manner and geared towards the larger population of readers. The essays are wide-ranging and analyze and comment on the works and styles of a variety of writers, including John Donne, Thomas Hardy, Thomas de Quincey, and more. This collection of essays, released in 1932, was a follow-up to her successful 1925 collection of essays, The Common Reader: First Series, and gives wonderful insight into Woolf's personal relationship with literature. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, an influential group of writers and intellectuals who lived near Bloomsbury, London, Woolf is regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. She penned such classics as Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. In a major poll conducted by the BBC in 2015, To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway came in at numbers two and three respectively on a list of the 100 greatest British novels of all time. N° de réf. du vendeur VW155

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Common Reader: Second Series
Éditeur : London: Hogarth Press
Date d'édition : 1932
Reliure : Hard Cover
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Dust Jacket Included
Edition : First Edition.