'A neglected classic.' - The New York Times
'Among the most moving diaries ever created.' - Ronald Blythe
'The 100-year-old multiple sclerosis diary that became a classic ... a furious, sometimes ecstatic, volatile little book.' - The Guardian
'In this diary of an intensely egotistical young naturalist, tragically caught by the creeping approach of death, we have one of the most moving records of the youthful aspects of our universal struggle ... unpremeditated and exquisite beauty.' - H.G Wells
'The Journal hit me like an explosion"- David Bradford, The Guardian
'If I had a friend who found life tedious, who was maybe even suicidal, and I had the power to make him or her read one book, it would be the soul-stirring diary of Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion' - Noel Perrin
'This Journal is one of the great affirmations in our literature.' - The Washington Post
'The greatest diary a man has written' - Thomas Mallon
'Parallels with Kafka's Diaries having been drawn but Barbellion is more than honest: his introspection has that supercharged quality, often found in German and Russian, but very seldom in English, literature - at all events since understatement became a national characteristic.' - Edward Sackville-West
