The Common Reader-行业好书-社会科学-太极之巅书单号

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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.

作品目录

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
Addison
Lives of the Obscure-
I. Taylors and Edgeworths
II. Laetitia Pilkington
Jane Austen
Modern Fiction
"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"
George Eliot
The Russian Point of View
Outlines-
I. Miss Mitford
II. Dr. Bentley
III. Lady Dorothy Nevill
IV. Archbishop Thomson
The Patron and the Crocus
The Modern Essay
Joseph Conrad
How it strikes a Contemporary
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一个人一旦认识自己，便能依靠自己，绝不会觉得自己无趣，只觉得生命短暂，沉浸在一种深远而适度的幸福中。只有他这样活着，而其他人——礼法的奴隶们，生命如梦般与其擦肩而过。一旦遵从世俗，一旦随波逐流，昏昏欲睡的感觉就慢慢袭来，控制一切出色的勇气和灵魂的才能。她只剩下炫耀的外表和空虚的内心，变得迟钝，麻木，冷漠无情了。

——引自第27页

Thecommonreader,asDr.Johnsonimplies,differsfromthecriticandthescholar.Heisworseeducated,andnaturehasnotgiftedhimsogenerously.Hereadsforhisownpleasureratherthantoimpartknowledgeorcorrecttheopinionsofothers.Aboveall,heisguidedbyaninstincttocreateforhimself,outofwhateveroddsandendshecancomeby,somekindofwhole—aportraitofaman,asketchofanage,atheoryoftheartofwriting

——引自章节：preface