{"product_id":"9780008542139_the-common-reader-volume-one-first-series","title":"The Common Reader: Volume One: First Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon – Jane Austen, George Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer among others – with the everyday, ‘common reader’ in mind. With wit and insight, Woolf also revisits classic novels and examines scholarly subjects, from the Greek language to the Modern Essay, to the Brontë’s \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1925, \u003cem\u003eThe Common Reader\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning work from one of the most perceptive minds of the twentieth century, a collection which continues to nurture the joys of literature and reading to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Woolf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898257723541,"sku":"9780008542139","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008542139_9bc06039-36c9-46fa-9a94-319dd03fcbb1.jpg?v=1776888358","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008542139_the-common-reader-volume-one-first-series","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}