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mindthebook's review against another edition
4.0
Dickens som sömnlös, nattlig Londonflanör. Om Virginia Woolf beskriver psykologiska processer i Street Haunting har vi här urbansociologi värdigt en Hogarthtavla.
Desperationen är påtaglig i formuleringar som "My principal object being to get through the night." Framåt morgonen ser han ändå fram emot att ta en kaffe med toast i Covent Garden - viktorianska varianten av detta kvarter, mind you.
Dröjer mig kvar vid meningen "Are not the sane and insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?" och lämnar denna lilla bok med en förnyad bild av Dickens.
Desperationen är påtaglig i formuleringar som "My principal object being to get through the night." Framåt morgonen ser han ändå fram emot att ta en kaffe med toast i Covent Garden - viktorianska varianten av detta kvarter, mind you.
Dröjer mig kvar vid meningen "Are not the sane and insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?" och lämnar denna lilla bok med en förnyad bild av Dickens.
withnailette89's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail
moonkallery's review against another edition
3.0
5 stars to the first short story and about 2 to all the others which had nothing to do with Nightwalks at all...
sarah_dietrich's review against another edition
4.0
Night Walks is a collection of Dickens' essays. He's a great essayist, I hadn't had any idea until I stumbled upon this thin volume in a book shop. Dickens was a great walker, walking back & forth across London and astutely observing the city around him. These essays are all about things that Dickens saw or investigated while roaming the streets of London & its suburbs. Night Walks, the titular essay, was my favourite.
jasminegannaway's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
rosieannereads's review against another edition
5.0
I only read the first essay, entitled 'Night Walks', for university. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am considering purchasing this collection and reading the remaining essays.