An essay that explores the theme of illness and why it has never been a subject of literature.
This is a brilliant and odd book, charged with restrained emotion and sudden humor."?Los Angeles Times Book Review "The resurrection of this forgotten work on illness is a boon indeed. . . . This is Woolf at her spangled best.
Hermione Lee's brilliant introduction to On Being Ill is a superb introduction to Virginia Woolf's life and writing. This book is embraced by the general public, the literary world, and the medical world.
The essay seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle.
The essay seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle.