Devils Everywhere
David Wootton: The Terrors of the Night, 9 March 2006
At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime
by Roger Ekirch.
Weidenfeld, 447 pp., £20, June 2005,0 297 82992 0 Show More
by Roger Ekirch.
Weidenfeld, 447 pp., £20, June 2005,
Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward
by David Prerau.
Granta, 256 pp., £14.99, October 2005,1 86207 796 7 Show More
by David Prerau.
Granta, 256 pp., £14.99, October 2005,
“... looked a goat in the eye, are minor in a book that can’t be summarised but must be experienced. David Prerau’s Saving the Daylight begins where Ekirch ends. Through the 19th century, more and more city streets were lit by gas lamps; in the early 20th century mains electricity spread rapidly. Artificial light made it possible to live and work by clock ... ”
