Sentence examples for the common reader from inspiring English sources

Woolf's collection of essays The Common Reader (1925) was followed by The Common Reader: Second Series (1932; also published as The Second Common Reader).

Why does the common reader pick up a scholarly book?

TV is tapping into the enthusiasm of the common reader.

In the Bloomsbury crowd, Eliot played the elitist to Woolf's populist (he scorned the common reader; she named her collection of critical essays "The Common Reader").

The common reader, it turned out, loved Eliot's Study of Provincial Life.

The idea of "the common reader", which had sustained a century of book publishing, was doomed.

The Erskines and the Adlers believed that they were bestowing moral and cultural goods on the masses; Bloom describes himself as seeking refuge in the common reader-the last man, he feels, who still might read for pleasure... Describes an evening cognac by Bloom and his retiring to sleep.

Airily, Briggs writes in her introduction that both the "Aftermaths" and the copious endnotes can be skipped "by 'the common reader' for whom my book is primarily intended".

Welcome to Who Cares What You Think About the Book You Wrote, a semi-regular series where I flip the common reader/writer interview on its head and ask an author to interview me about the book they wrote.

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The title of Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader, another early bird, was apposite (though it has since been misinterpreted as snooty): in the essays, Woolf attempted to see literature from the point of view of the non-expert, as part of what Hermione Lee has called her "life-long identification with the self-educated reader".