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.
- ISBN10 0701206691
- ISBN13 9780701206697
- Publish Date 19 May 1994 (first published 1 March 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Hogarth
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 688
- Language English