The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
Virginia Woolf · 1942
Woolf's essays are among the most beautiful objects in English prose. She thinks in images, leaps between registers, and makes argument feel like reverie. This collection includes her most-anthologized pieces.
The case against
Assembled by Leonard Woolf after her death, this is a posthumous grab bag: a few immortal essays packed alongside book reviews and occasional journalism she never chose to preserve. When the subject is thin, the famous shimmer drifts toward the ornamental, and several subjects here are very thin. Read the title essay slowly; skim the reviews with a clear conscience.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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