The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

by Virginia Woolf

Overview

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). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156252348
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/23/1974
Series:	Harvest Book Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	553,023
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1882

Date of Death:

March 28, 1941

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Sussex, England

Education:

Home schooling

Table of Contents

	The Death of the Moth	3
	Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car	7
	Three Pictures	12
	Old Mrs. Grey	17
	Street Haunting	20
	Jones and Wilkinson	37
	"Twelfth Night" at the Old Vic	45
	Madame de Sevigne	51
	The Humane Art	58
	Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole	64
	The Rev. William Cole: A Letter	76
	The Historian and "The Gibbon"	82
	Reflections at Sheffield Place	94
	The Man at the Gate	104
	Sara Coleridge	111
	"Not One of Us"	119
	Henry James	129
1.	Within the Rim
2.	The Old Order
3.	The Letters of Henry James
	George Moore	156
	The Novels of E. M. Forster	162
	Middlebrow	176
	The Art of Biography	187
	Craftsmanship	198
	A Letter to a Young Poet	208
	Why?	227
	Professions for Women	235
	Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid	243