Journey To The Ends Of Time: Volume 1: Lost In The Dark Wood
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume 1: Lost in the Dark Wood, Sacheverell Sitwell — one of the most remarkable and underappreciated polymaths of the twentieth century — presents a sweeping, meditative odyssey through memory, civilisation, art, and mortality. This first volume draws the reader into a labyrinthine reverie, where Sitwell chronicles the full arc of human experience with the breathless urgency of a man confronting life's twilight, weaving together personal recollection, cultural observation, and visionary prose into a singular tapestry of thought. Sitwell's style is characteristically opulent and digressive, bearing the unmistakable hallmark of a writer equally at home discussing Baroque architecture, Spanish painting, or the rituals of remote civilisations. In the tradition of the great essayists and travel writers, this work argues that beauty and transience are inseparable companions, and that civilisation itself is a monument built against forgetting. Rich with allusion and saturated with a melancholy grandeur, Lost in the Dark Wood leaves the reader wondering what further revelations await in the volumes to come.
Author: Sacheverell Sitwell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume 1: Lost in the Dark Wood, Sacheverell Sitwell — one of the most remarkable and underappreciated polymaths of the twentieth century — presents a sweeping, meditative odyssey through memory, civilisation, art, and mortality. This first volume draws the reader into a labyrinthine reverie, where Sitwell chronicles the full arc of human experience with the breathless urgency of a man confronting life's twilight, weaving together personal recollection, cultural observation, and visionary prose into a singular tapestry of thought. Sitwell's style is characteristically opulent and digressive, bearing the unmistakable hallmark of a writer equally at home discussing Baroque architecture, Spanish painting, or the rituals of remote civilisations. In the tradition of the great essayists and travel writers, this work argues that beauty and transience are inseparable companions, and that civilisation itself is a monument built against forgetting. Rich with allusion and saturated with a melancholy grandeur, Lost in the Dark Wood leaves the reader wondering what further revelations await in the volumes to come.