Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit. Alphonse Daudet
In the Land of Pain Alphonse Daudet s poignant, humorous, and piercing reflections on his years of enduring severe illness is a classic in the literary annals of human suffering.
Daudet (1840 1897) was a greatly admired writer during his lifetime, praised by Dickens and Henry James. In the prime of his life, he developed an agonizing nerve disease caused by syphilis and began taking notes about his experience, published posthumously as In the Land of...