{"product_id":"9781930464131","title":"On Being Ill: with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant and beautiful.\"—Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[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.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The resurrection of this forgotten work on illness is a boon indeed. . . . This is Woolf at her spangled best.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Lee's introduction to Woolf's life, work, and \u003ci\u003eOn Being Ill\u003c\/i\u003e, is ideal for book groups, general readers, students, caregivers, and of course anyone suffering from a cold or more serious illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882–1941) is among the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking books include \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHermione Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is the renowned author of \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other best-selling biographies include \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePhilip Roth\u003c\/i\u003e. She is president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paris Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033532776688,"sku":"9781930464131","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781930464131_p0.jpg?v=1763783491","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781930464131","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}