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Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups by Ben Holden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups about?

There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health?In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the best-selling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep but also why we endlessly tell stories - even to ourselves, as we dream.Holden combines his own illuminating storytelling with a treasure trove of timeless classics and contemporary gems. Poems and short stories, fairy tales and fables, reveries and nocturnes - from William Shakespeare to Haruki Murakami, Charles Dickens to Roald Dahl, Rabindranath Tagore to Nora Ephron, Vladimir Nabokov to Neil Gaiman - are all woven together to replicate the journey of a single night's sleep.Some of today's greatest storytellers reveal their choices of the ideal grown-up bedtime story: writers such as Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett, Tessa Hadley, Robert Macfarlane, Patrick Ness, Tony Robinson, and Warsan Shire.Fold away your laptop and shut down your mobile phone. Curl up and crash out with the ultimate b

Who reads Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups?

Author

Ben Holden

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Regulatory Literature, Stem