Sentence examples for for the common reader from inspiring English sources
So he moved to Edinburgh and began publishing inexpensive Bibles and other religious texts for the common reader.
Again with a concern for the common reader, he has tried to make the slang sound natural, and he succeeds.
It was a book which Victorians like Trollope thought far too difficult for the common reader (among whom the Chronicler of Barsetshire counted himself – he, too, has been given the Davies kiss of life).
He carefully monitored his sales figures and made certain that in addition to the morocco-bound volumes printed for the carriage trade, there were broadsides and cheap pamphlets available for the common reader.
The very sense, proclaimed in a prefatory note to Dart, that the poem visits known places attaches Oswald to a certain pastoral tradition, a poetry of locality and of natural description that remains appealing for the common reader.
But the Adams who wore his colossal learning heavily — who was the real education President, believing in the interdependence of liberty and literacy — appears somewhat grudgingly, as though the author (or his publisher) feared that a seminar on the English liberal-republican tradition might be too indigestible a dish for the common reader.
On my reading, on behalf of the common reader, the presumed audience for a list such as ours, it is also unintelligible.
To understand this difference, it may help to recognize that when you write for a departmental class, you are writing for an audience more expert than the common reader.
If in earlier centuries the common reader was for Johnson and Woolf at least partly a rhetorical construction, an imagined nonspecialist that enabled their own work, for the critic at the millennium the audience for literature is not so shadowy.
The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the "common reader" who reads books for personal enjoyment.
