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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘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’In 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 Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.First published in 1925, The Common Reader 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.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man – the mystery

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back