The Common Reader: Vol. I by Virginia Woolf " proclaimed Charles Dickens in

" proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel

Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant

grim house Wuthering Heights

respect and the promise of an enduring friendship

Sounds of Silence traces in moving detail her joy at coming in touch with Karl once again

The Common Reader: Vol. I by Virginia Woolf " proclaimed Charles Dickens inVirginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries. She was perhaps better able, then, to address a 'common reader' in this wide ranging collection of essays. With all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamp of her genius, she turns from medieval England to tsarist Russia, and subjects Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists to her wise, acute and entertaining