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.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man - W.N.P. Barbellion
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