The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth Press, 1942. First edit
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. Original dust jacket.First posthumously published collection of Woolf’s essays. Vanessa Bell’s dust jacket design shows the great elm tree, under which Virginia Woolf’s ashes are buried, just outside the garden at Monk’s House. Woolf’s signature essay, “The Death of the Moth,” describes the beauty of life as a dying moth fights to right itself: “Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead.” -- source link
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