A SELF-PORTRAIT IN THE NUDE
The Life of W. N. P. Barbellion and the Book He Made of ItBy B.Tenorio, A.Jay
Length7h 35m
About this audiobook
In 1919 The Journal of a Disappointed Man announced the death of an author who was still alive. It has been read ever since as the rawest diary in English. It is nothing of the kind. In 1917, dying and barely able to write, Bruce Frederick Cummings rebuilt fourteen years of notebooks into a book — cutting, rewriting, blanking out the name of his own disease, and planting footnotes that give the ending away. This is the life of the self-taught naturalist who did it, of the wife who knew what he did not, and of the book he made of himself.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length7 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Life of W. N. P. Barbellion and the Book He Made of It
2CHAPTER ONE The Sweetshop and the Newspaper
3CHAPTER TWO Signed My Death Warrant
4CHAPTER THREE One Ditch
5CHAPTER FOUR God Save the Mark
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6CHAPTER FIVE A First-Rate Disease
7CHAPTER SIX A Little of 1912?
8CHAPTER SEVEN Creeping Ferlies
9CHAPTER EIGHT Finis
10CHAPTER NINE She Has Known All From the Beginning
11CHAPTER TEN Bowdlerising My Own Book
12CHAPTER ELEVEN Malignant Fate
13CHAPTER TWELVE Cutting the Pages of My Own Book
14CHAPTER THIRTEEN Twenty Weeks
15CHAPTER FOURTEEN Enjoying Life
16CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Passion for Perpetuation
17CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Scarabee Monographed
18CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Crying for the Moon
19CHAPTER EIGHTEEN How Tom Snored
20CHAPTER NINETEEN The Lives He Chose
21CHAPTER TWENTY Possession
22CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Animated Nature
23CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Distribution of the British Newts
24CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Eleanor
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