Essays

Written while she worked on "Orlando", "To the Lighthouse" and "A Room of One's Own", and including "The Common Reader", the essays explore subjects ranging from the greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the "common reader" she addresses.

Written while Virginia Woolf worked on "Orlando", "To the Lighthouse" and "A Room of One's Own", and including the complete text of "The Common Reader", the essays in this volume explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the "common reader" she addresses. The volume also includes her introduction to an American edition of "Mrs Dalloway". Andrew McNeillie introduces and annotates her writing.