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The life of Bruce Frederick Cummings, who wrote under the name of
W. N. P. Barbellion, was short, tragically curtailed by multiple
sclerosis. He was born in 1889 and died in 1919. Started when he
was thirteen, this remarkable journal, described by Ronald Blythe
as 'among the most moving diaries ever created', documents the rest
of his life. Filled with devastating frankness, keen observation
and a sort of stoicism, it is, in the words of the author 'a study
in the nude'. One of the last entries can act as his epitaph: 'I am
only twenty-eight, but I have telescoped into those few years a
tolerably long life: I have loved and married, and have a family; I
have wept and enjoyed, struggled and overcome, and when the hour
comes I shall be content to die'.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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.
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