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The Common Reader

Woolf, Virginia

Read by Alan Mapstone, Rita Boutros, Kazbek, Hanna Ponomarenko, Arden, jenno, Elin, Bruce Pirie, J. M. Smallheer, Greta Buitkute and Owlivia · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Chapters

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01 - The Common Reader (2:57)
02 - The Pastons and Chaucer (54:11)
03 - On Not Knowing Greek (41:25)
04 - The Elizabethan Lumber Room (24:18)
05 - Notes on an Elizabethan Play (29:06)
06 - Montaigne (22:32)
07 - The Duchess of Newcastle (22:41)
08 - Rambling Round Evelyn (19:54)
09 - Defoe (21:14)
10 - Addison (29:40)
11 - The Lives of the Obscure (2:07)
12 - I. The Taylors and the Edgeworths (27:24)
13 - II. Laetitia Pilkington (13:45)
14 - III. Miss Ormerod (24:43)
15 - Jane Austen (31:55)
16 - Modern Fiction (18:55)
17 - 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' (18:05)
18 - George Eliot (28:24)
19 - The Russian Point of View (27:43)
20 - Outlines - I. Miss Mitford (18:48)
21 - Outlines. II. Dr. Bentley (15:39)
22 - Outlines. III. Lady Dorothy Nevill (12:51)
23 - Outlines. IV. Archbishop Thomson (13:01)
24 - The Patron and the Crocus (9:19)
25 - The Modern Essay (24:21)
26 - Joseph Conrad (20:48)
27 - How It Strikes a Contemporary (21:38)

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