On Being Ill (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781916809796)

"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.

Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN-10: 1916809790
ISBN-13: 9781916809796
Publisher: Eris
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 20
Format: Paperback