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Hours From the Night - A Collection of Nocturnal Essays

Hours From the Night - A Collection of Nocturnal Essays

Hours From the Night - A Collection of Nocturnal Essays

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Read & Co. Great Essays
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2020
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Historia natural
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9781528717496
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“Hours From the Night” is a fantastic collection of classic essays by a variety of famous writers all connected through a common theme: night time. Including essays from such prolific writers as Charles Dickens and Andrew Lang, this collection will appeal to night owls and literature lovers with a penchant for the nocturnal. Contents include: “Night Walks, by Charles Dickens”, “Night and Moonlight, by Henry David Thoreau”, “On Lying Awake at Night, by Stewart Edward White”, “A Night in the Garden of the Tuileries, by Charles Dudley Warner”, “Nocturne, by Simeon Strunsky”, “Idle Hours, by Robert Louis Stevenson”, “The Streets — Night, by Charles Dickens”, “On a Shiny Night, by A. G. Gardiner”, “Summer Nights, by Andrew Lang”, “The Mystery of Night, by Hamilton Wright Mabie”, and “Street Haunting - A London Adventure, by Virginia Woolf”. Read & Co. Great Essays is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now for the enjoyment of a new generation of readers.

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