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An edition of The Second Common Reader (1925)

The common reader

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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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Harcourt, Brace and company
Language
English
Pages
332

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Subjects

History and criticism, English literature, Modern Literature, Literature, modern, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Dorothy Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Lawrence Sterne, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Lord Chesterfield, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabethans

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The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition
January 13, 2003, Harvest Books
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The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
April 1984, Harvest Books
in English
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The common reader.
1984, Harcourt, Inc.
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The Second Common reader.
1960, Harcourt, Brace
in English
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The common reader
1925, Harcourt, Brace and company
in English

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Table of Contents

The common reader.
The Pastons and Chaucer.
On not knowing Greek.
The Elizabethan lumber room.
Notes on an Elizabethan play.
Montaigne.
The Duchess of Newcastle.
Rambling round Evelyn.
Defoe.
Addison.
The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.
Jane Austen.
Modern fiction.
"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights".
George Eliot.
The Russian point of view.
Outlines: Miss Mitford. Dr. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.
The patron and the crocus.
The modern essay.
Joseph Conrad.
How it strikes a contemporary.

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Library of Congress
PR99 .W77 1925a, PN511 .W7 1925a

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Pagination
4 p. l., 7-332 p.
Number of pages
332

Edition Identifiers

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OL6677576M
Internet Archive
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LCCN
25010098
OCLC/WorldCat
1261226
LibraryThing
46499

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Work ID
OL39589W

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