In the second series, Woolf looks at the lives and works of such authors as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, and others. A fantastic collection of essays not to be missed by fans of Woolf's seminal work and literature lovers in general.

First published 1932.

The strange Elizabethans Donne after three centuries "The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" "Robinson Crusoe" Dorothy Osborne's "Letters" Swift's "Journal to Stella" The "Sentimental journey" Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son Two parsons I. James Woodforde; II. John Skinner Dr. Burney's evening party Jack Mytton De Quincey's autobiography Four figures I. Cowper and Lady Austen; II. Beau Brummell; III. Mary Wollstonecraft; Dorothy Wordsworth William Hazlitt Geraldine and Jane "Aurora Leigh" The niece of an earl George Gissing The novels of George Meredith "I am Christina Rossetti" The novels of Thomas Hardy How should one read a book?