The journal of a disappointed man
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Author
Contributions
- Wells, H. G. 1866-1946. - Contributor
Publication
1919 - G. H. Doran, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6617701M
- OCLC Control Number3428286
- OCLC Control Numberjournaladisappo00wellgoog
- Library of Congress Control Number19011799
- LibraryThing147573
Classifications
- LCCPR6005.U5 J7 1919b
Description
Begun when its author was 13 years old, the Journal at first catalogues Barbellion's misadventures in the Devon countryside - collecting birds' eggs, spying girls through binoculars - but evolves into a deeply moving account of his struggle with poverty, his lack of formal education, his flailing attempts at love, and most harrowing of all his slow death from multiple sclerosis. Yet, for all its excruciating honesty, W.N.P. Barbellion has an extraordinary lust for life. As Zeppelins loomed above the streets of South Kensington, the humour and beauty he found in the world around him - in music, friendship, nature and love - deepens not just the tragedy of his own life, but the millions of lives lost during the First World War.
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