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title: "The Death of the Moth and Other Essays"
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# The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent collection from a great writer.
*by R***R on July 12, 2019*

Brilliant, as expected. Although I was tiring of reading about Horace Walpole early on, the first and last essays (“The Death of the Moth” and “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid”) were more than enough to make up for stuffy Horace and his crowd. I also enjoyed the Henry James section. Woolf fans will probably like this collection, I know I did.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The incomparable Mrs. Woolf
*by E***D on November 26, 2014*

Mrs. Woolf "on Craftsmanship" is extraordinary. Worth the price of the entire book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kicking Against The Pricks
*by R***N on January 9, 2015*

Virginia Woolf had an unfortunate life, beginning with her family relationships, notably having the ill-tempered and depressive Leslie Stephen for a father. Early on, she exhibited the symptoms of mental illness (most likely bi-polar disorder for which there was no effective treament in her lifetime) and had several psychotic episodes and hospitalizations. Leonard, her husband, was apparently an understanding and supportive man, though her sex life with him was unsatisfactory, even less than her affair with Vita Sackville-West, who by all accounts was a bitch supreme, who managed to have a happy marriage with Harold Nicholson mostly because he and she were more homosexual than heter.With all this misfortune, you almost have to hope that Virginia's career as a writer had been more successful. Primarily, she hoped to be a major novelist, but the majority of her fiction, written in part to demonstrate the irrelevance of "realism", is mediocre, excepting perhaps TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, which survives largely because of the animus towards her father, the inspiration for one of the characters. (Her first novels--THE VOYAGE OUT and NIGHT AND DAY--are realistic, but they're minor works, if not exactly juvenilia.)As someone has said, her books are like paintings with lots of color and texture but no draughtsmanship. The "luminous halo" she sought to portray eludes her and stultifies her reader.Her real gift was for the essay form and literary criticism. The book under review and her two volumes of THE COMMON READER are her greatest achievements. Why she wasn't satisfied with being a good essayist and critic mystifies me. How many good essayists and critics have written worthwhile fiction? Trilling's lone novel is second-rate, Edmund Wilson's fiction the same, Raymond Williams and V.S. Pritchett wrote bad novels (though something could be said for the latter's short stories). And going back further Sainte-Beuve's VOLUPTE is far inferior to his causeries. Hazlitt never attempted fiction, neither did Matthew Arnold or T.S. Eliot; and I can only speculate how awful a novel F.R. Leavis or Queenie would have produced.Doing what you do well ought to be enough, but apparently writers like Virgina Woolf never think so.

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