The Common Reader Author:Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel with such works as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. She was an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form. This collection covers literary works from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, with a piece on anc... more »ient Greece as well. She covers medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Vicotrian novelists and modern essayists. She addresses the 'common reader' in lucid prose and with all the imagination and insight that are the hallmarks of her genius.« less