The Death of the Moth

2014 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 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). In this collection are gathered items that would have formed a third volume of Woolf's popular "The Common Reader." Put together after her death, the reader can meet in these page Mme de Sevigne, Horace Walpole, Gibbon, Coleridge and Shelley. Among more modern writers to be found are Henry James, George Moore, E.M. Forster and even Virginia Woolf herself, vehemently protesting that she is a highbrow. There are also other essays of a less critical nature.