City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson

City of Dreadful Night

James Thomson

80 pages first pub 1874 (editions)

fiction classics horror poetry challenging dark slow-paced
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In this haunting poem from the latter part of the nineteenth century, Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern age's nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation and spiritual despair. In contrast to the late Vic...

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Moods

dark 100%
challenging 66%
mysterious 66%
reflective 33%
sad 33%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 33%

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