Death of the Moth, and Other Essays

✍ Scribed by Woolf, Virginia

• Book ID: 109623200
• Year: 1942
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work.

"Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)).

"Exquisitely written" (New Yorker);

"The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor).

Contains :

The Death of the Moth

Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car

Three Pictures

Old Mrs. Grey

Street Haunting: A London Adventure

Jones and Wilkinson

“Twelfth Night” at the Old Vic

Madame de Sévigné

The Humane Art

Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole

The Rev William Cole

The Historian and “The Gibbon”

Reflections at Sheffield Place

The Man at the Gate

Sara Coleridge

“Not One of Us”

Henry James: 1. Within the Rim

Henry James: 2. The Old Order

Henry James: 3. The letters of Henry James

George Moore

The Novels of E. M. Forster

Middlebrow

The Art of Biography

Craftsmanship

A Letter to a Young poet

Why?

Professions for Women

Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid