What’s the best cure for a man who hates the mountains? Send him to the mountains. What’s the best cure for a misanthrope? Send him to live with other people. Thus begins Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic by Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917).

What’s the best cure for a man who hates the mountains? Send him to the mountains. What’s the best cure for a misanthrope? Send him to live with other people. Thus begins Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic by Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917).