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The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It begins as an ambitious teenager's notes on the natural world and then following his diagnosis at the age of twenty-six transforms into a deeply moving account of battling the disease. His prose is full of humour and fierce intelligence and combines a passion for life with clear-sighted reflections on the nature of death. Barbellion selected and edited this manuscript himself in 1917 adding a fictional editor's note announcing his own demise. This Penguin Classics edition includes 'The Last Diary' which covers the period between submission of the manuscript and Barbellion's actual death in 1919.
TITLE: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
AUTHOR: W. N. P. Barbellion
SKU: 9780241297698
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 02/11/2017
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 400
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
WEIGHT: 292 gr