Night Thoughts (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Winder, Simon

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9780140436952: Night Thoughts (Penguin Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140436952 ISBN 13: 9780140436952

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

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This book celebrates the great tradition of 'night writing' - the extraordinary inner dialogue provoked in the late hours when "the whole world's sap is sunk". Poems and prose, night-thoughts are most firmly rooted in the seventeenth century - withhour-glass, skull and candle placed upon the table - and convey a magical sense of personal scrutiny, of lucid reflection on solitude and human frailty.

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Synopsis:

This text celebrates the great tradition of "night writing" - the inner dialogue provoked in the late hours. Poems and prose, night-thoughts are most firmly rooted in the 17th century and convey a magical sense of personal scrutiny, of lucid reflection on solitude and human frailty.

About the Author:

Amongst the selection of extracts will be works by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen and John Bunyan.

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