On Being Ill

Author(s): Woolf, Virginia,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 24/09/2024,
Pagination: 20 pages,
Series: ERIS Gems,
Imprint: ERIS,
Published By: ERIS,
Book Classification: Language: reference & general,
Dimensions: 195 x 118 x 6
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781916809796

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“Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.”Virginia Woolf’s essay begins by lamenting the surprise neglect of ill-health as a potential literary subject. What then unfolds is a dazzlingly written series of reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world. Above all a testament to the fundamental solitariness of the human soul, this is an indispensable work by the preeminent stylist of twentieth-century English literature.