The Journal of a Disappointed Man
English
By (author): Amy Ratcliffe Ava Reid Beano Studios Bear Grylls Benjamin Walker Beverley Copnell Bluey Brandon Sanderson Caitlin Freeman Christopher Nolan Chugong Collins Dictionaries Dave Scheidt David Byrne David Richo Dr. Marc Bubbs Ella Mills (Woodward) Elle Kennedy Elodie Harper Erin Carlyle Frank Herbert Franz Hibma Gabila Fohtung Nubong Gene Luen Yang Geronimo Stilton Glen Arnold Grant McConnell Hannah Dolan I.P. Daley Insight Editions Isabel Thomas Ivan Reis J. K. Rowling J.D. Bernal Jane Austen Jenny Smith Jerome Alquie Joel Balsam Jonathan Crichton Jonathan Stephenson King James Version L.J. Shen Lally Kadler Lauren Walsh Leiji Matsumoto Linda Yueh Lisa McKenna Lonely Planet Makoto Yukimura Mariko Tamaki Max Wainewright Michael Morpurgo Michelle Gagnon Natsuki Takaya Nicole M. Avena Orange Hippo! Parker S. Huntington Pieter Koster Princeton Architectural Press Roger Pearce Santanu Bhattacharya Sara Goetter Simon Scarrow Steven Brindle Tom King Tom Masters W. N. P. Barbellion
Illustrated by: David Finch, Dawn Cooper, Emma McCann, Guy Harvey, Mikel Janin, Shoo Rayner
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.