The common reader, first series. [electronic resource]
Material type: TextSeries: Harvest books ; HB10Publication details: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [c1953]Description: x, 246 p. 19 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 820.4
- PR99 .W77 1953x
The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.--Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn.--Defoe.--Adison.--The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths. Laetitia Pilkington. Miss Ormerod.--Jane Austen.--Modern fiction.--"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights."--George Eliot.--The Russian point of view.--Outlines: Miss Mitford. Dr. Bentley. Lady Dorothy Nevill. Archbishop Thomson.--The patron and the crocus.--The modern essay.--Joseph Conrad.--How it strikes a contemporary.
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