The Journal of a Disappointed Man
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2017
Summary
The Naked Truth: A Naturalist’s Battle with MS
A funny, inspiring, and heartbreaking diary that charts an energetic naturalist’s battle with a degenerative disease.
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 battl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241297698 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241297699 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | W.N.P. Barbellion |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
His work has permanent value – Arnold Bennett Letter to Barbellion’s widow Among the most moving diaries ever created – Ronald Blythe Each Returning Day: The Pleasure of Diaries A furious, sometimes ecstatic, volatile little book – William Atkins Guardian His is the greatest diary a man has written – Thomas Mallon A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries As great in its own right as anything which James Joyce was to write – James Mildren Western Morning News
About The Author
W.N.P. Barbellion
W. N. P. Barbellion was the pseudonym of Bruce Frederick Cummings (1889-1919), an entomologist at the Natural History Museum in London. He selected W. N. P. as the initials of three of ‘the most wretched figures in history’- Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Nero and Pontius Pilate. Barbellion was the name of his favourite pastry-shop on Gloucester Road.
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