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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-26 - Publisher: Random House
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Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Textual Studies and the Common Reader collects eleven original essays by editors of literary texts and theorists concerned about the implications of what such e
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 1925 - Publisher: Bibliotech Press
A far cry from her wistful and introspective fiction, Woolf's essays on literature read as lively, droll, and conversational. These essays focus on famous liter
Language: en
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Language: en
Pages: 184
Pages: 184
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture