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Virginia Woolf - 1926

In 1926 Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled, "How Should One Read a Book?" to deliver as a lecture at a private girls' school in Kent, England.

In revised form it appears to have been first published in The Yale Review, October, 1926. Along with other essays, it first appeared in book form in Woolf's The Common Reader: Second Series in 1932.

The Casuarina Tree

W. Somerset Maugham - 1926

1926.

Maugham, English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright is best remembered for his novel Of Human Bondage. The Casuarina Tree contains six stories by Maugham including: Before the Party; P. and O.; The Outstation; The Force of Circumstance; The Yellow Streak; and The Letter.

The Happy Tree

Rosalind Murray - 1926

'A 1926 novel which begins with the death of a young man during the war, flashes back to his happy childhood shared with the young woman who is the narrator, and then describes how the war – inevitably – took them unawares, destroyed their happiness and has left her, the young woman, emotionally maimed.

The World Of William Clissold;A Novel At A New Angle

H.G. Wells - 1926

Best ofBritish-Literature

1926

How Should One Read a Book?

The Casuarina Tree

The Happy Tree

The World Of William Clissold;A Novel At A New Angle

Best of
British-Literature