On Being Ill

"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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Eris
Published: 09/24/2024
Series: Eris Gems
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.1lbs
Size: 0.10h x 0.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781916809796