Newton letter

By:

Banville, John

Material type: Book

BookPublication details: London: Picador, 1982.Description: 97p.; pbk; 20cmISBN:

9780330372350

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914 BAN

Summary: A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art . . . The Newton Letter gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to concentrate on anything until he had read it again to make sure that it seemed as good on the second reading. It did.’ Irish Times In John Banville's The Newton Letter, a historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton’s mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate. https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/john-banville/the-newton-letter/9780330372350

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	823.914 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		031867
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	823.914 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		031868

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A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art . . . The Newton Letter gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to concentrate on anything until he had read it again to make sure that it seemed as good on the second reading. It did.’ Irish Times In John Banville's The Newton Letter, a historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton’s mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate.

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/john-banville/the-newton-letter/9780330372350

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