The Common Reader Volume 1: Virginia Woolf - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 009944366X ISBN 13: 9780099443667

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

Scopri i saggi critici informativi ed eruditi di Virginia Woolf su alcuni dei principali romanzieri e drammaturghi del canone, dagli antichi greci a Jane Austen e oltre. Virginia Woolf leggeva e scriveva da outsider, a cui venivano negati i privilegi educativi dei suoi contemporanei maschi. Forse era più in grado, quindi, di rivolgersi a un ''lettore comune'' in questa vasta raccolta di saggi. Con tutta l'immaginazione e l'allegria che sono il marchio del suo genio, si sposta dall'Inghilterra medievale alla Russia zarista e sottopone drammaturghi elisabettiani, romanzieri vittoriani e saggisti moderni al suo saggio, acuto e divertente esame. Saggi su Jane Austen, George Eliot, Nancy Mitford, Joseph Conrad, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe e molti altri.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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This is Virginia Woolf's first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the 'common reader' - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her father's library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes 'English Literature'. What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial literary and social history from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, with an excursion to ancient Greece thrown in. She investigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists. When she published this book Woolf's fame as a novelist was already established: now she was hailed as a brilliant interpretative critic. Here, she addresses her 'common reader' in the remarkable prose and with all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• ISBN 10: 009944366X
• ISBN 13: 9780099443667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: {language_tag:it_IT,value:"Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk"}