THE FABER BOOK OF FEVERS AND FRETS
by Enright, D.J. (edited by)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571150950
- ISBN 13
- 9780571150953
- Seller
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 [First published in 1989 by Faber and Faber Limited]. 364 pages with indexes, editor's note and introduction. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased; original dustjacket not price clipped; dustjacket's edges are rubbed. Edges of the pages have tanned through age. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Anthology of poetry and prose on illness divided into sections (Generalities; Illnesses, Greater and Lesser; Eyes, Ears and Teeth; Doctors and Cures; Hospitals and Patients; Philosophers and Kings; Intellectual and Spiritual Frets; Strange Complaints, Mishaps, Embarrassments; Imaginary, Feigned, Psychological; Melancholy and Love Sickness; Manias, Phobias, Fantasies, Fears; Breakdown and Madness; Young and Old; Animals; Invalids and Convalescents; Short and Sharp). Some of the writers included are: Virginia Woolf, Proust, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Susan Sontag, Brecht. Many of the pieces are light-hearted, even comical - it will amuse, entertain and solace.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000339
- Title
- THE FABER BOOK OF FEVERS AND FRETS
- Author
- Enright, D.J. (edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571150950
- ISBN 13
- 9780571150953
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Anthology of Poems and Prose Illness
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Poetry;
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