The Journal of a Disappointed Man / A Last Diary
by W. N. P. Barbellion
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"Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, this remarkable memoir addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet Barbellion still manages to write with uplifting eloquence and passion of his love for family, natural history, music, and literature. Told with a thoroughly modern voice, the unjustly overlooked Journal is reprinted here with its posthumous successor, A Last Diary. Introduction by H. G. Wells"--Tags
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Recommended by Noel Perrin in his A READER'S DELIGHT, this is the exceptionally candid diary of a young, hopeful scientist. His poverty kept him from a formal education which, in turn, kept him from a respectable position in science. His poor health and knowledge he would die young drove him as much to succeed and experience life as his innate drive for knowledge did. Tragic, yet entertaining, inspiring, and an interesting read into another's mind. An awful lot of killing animals and dissection.
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- Canonical title
- The Journal of a Disappointed Man / A Last Diary
- Original publication date
- 1919 / 1920
- Epigraph
- ‘I returned, and saw under the sun, that the
race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour
to men of skill; but tim... (show all)e and chance
happeneth to them all. For man
also knoweth not his time; as the
fishes that are taken in an evil
net, and as the birds that are
caught in the snare; so are
the sons of men snared in
an evil time, when it
falleth suddenly
upon them.’
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