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 & 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 & fierce intelligence & combines a passion for life with clear-sighted reflections on the nature of death Barbellion selected & 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 & Barbellion's actual death in 1919