Volume 50, Number 2 · February 13, 2003
Turgenev's Banana
By James Fenton
On Being Ill
by Virginia Woolf, with an introduction by Hermione Lee
Paris Press, 28 pp., $20.00
In the Land of Pain
by Alphonse Daudet, edited and translated from the French by Julian Barnes
Knopf, 87 pp., $18.00
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
by John Donne, with a preface by Andrew Motion
Vintage Spiritual Classics, 234 pp., $12.95
A Memorial of the Last Days on Earth of Emily Gosse by Her Husband Philip Henry Gosse, FRS
by Philip Henry Gosse
in Areté, Issue Seven, Winter 2001
Virginia Woolf begins her 1926 essay On Being Ill with a long sentence—'lavishly cumulative,' Hermione Lee calls it, and 'highly De Quinceyan.' It runs thus:
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