"By turns lyrical, self-mocking, and outlandish, Woolf"s meditation on the perils and privileges of the sickbed lampoons the loneliness that makes one "glad of a kick from a housemaid." When Woolf imagines beauty in a frozen-over garden . . . it seems less a triumph of nature than of art."?The New Yorker"Brilliant and beautiful."?Francine Prose, Bookforum"[A] long-neglected reverie on illness . . . reprinted by the sterling Paris Press. 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."?BooklistIn this poignant and humorous book, Virginia Woolf observes that no human being is spared toothaches, colds, and the flu. Yet illness?transformative and as common as love and war?is rarely the subject of polite conversation, let alone literature. This paperback facsimile of the 1930 Hogarth Press edition, with Hermione...