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Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age
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One of The Daily Telegraph’s Greatest Books of 2025
A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives of the elderly across thousands of years of human history.
Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt, and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of aging through artistic, literary, and historical records. While old age is often depicted as “sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything,” Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly...
A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives of the elderly across thousands of years of human history.
Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt, and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of aging through artistic, literary, and historical records. While old age is often depicted as “sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything,” Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly...
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