THE FABER BOOK OF FEVERS AND FRETS

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.