The Second Common Reader
History and criticismEnglish literatureModern LiteratureLiterature, modern, history and criticismEnglish literature, history and criticism
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Contains 26 essays on aspects of English literature. Among her subjects are the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Christina Rossetti. She also reflects on the poetry of John Donne; the works of Daniel Defoe, Lawrence Sterne, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters; and Thomas De Quincey’s autobiography. Noteworthy too is the last essay, "How Should One Read a Book?".
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Virginia Woolf
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the ge…
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