The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
by Woolf, VirginiaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1974-10-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| The Death of the Moth | p. 3 |
| Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car | p. 7 |
| Three Pictures | p. 12 |
| Old Mrs. Grey | p. 17 |
| Street Haunting | p. 20 |
| Jones and Wilkinson | p. 37 |
| "Twelfth Night" at the Old Vic | p. 45 |
| Madame de Sevigne | p. 51 |
| The Humane Art | p. 58 |
| Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole | p. 64 |
| The Rev. William Cole: A Letter | p. 76 |
| The Historian and "The Gibbon" | p. 82 |
| Reflections at Sheffield Place | p. 94 |
| The Man at the Gate | p. 104 |
| Sara Coleridge | p. 111 |
| "Not One of Us" | p. 119 |
| Henry James | p. 129 |
| Within the Rim | |
| The Old Order | |
| The Letters of Henry James | |
| George Moore | p. 156 |
| The Novels of E. M. Forster | p. 162 |
| Middlebrow | p. 176 |
| The Art of Biography | p. 187 |
| Craftsmanship | p. 198 |
| A Letter to a Young Poet | p. 208 |
| Why? | p. 227 |
| Professions for Women | p. 235 |
| Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid | p. 243 |
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