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Dennis Potter – The Glittering Coffin – First Edition 1960
£185.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Glittering Coffin’ published by Gollancz in 1960. A near fine book without inscriptions in like wrapper a little browned to the spine and a little wear to the corners.
A thought-provoking essay exploring Britain’s postwar society, particularly the emptiness beneath its prosperity and consumerism. Potter critiques how material success and mass media foster superficiality, replacing spiritual and moral values with hollow glitter. Through sharp cultural commentary, he warns of a society trapped by illusion—comforted by appearances yet morally decaying within. The “glittering coffin” symbolises modern civilisation’s dazzling exterior hiding inner death and disconnection.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘The Glittering Coffin’ published by Gollancz in 1960. A near fine book without inscriptions in like wrapper a little browned to the spine and a little wear to the corners.
A thought-provoking essay exploring Britain’s postwar society, particularly the emptiness beneath its prosperity and consumerism. Potter critiques how material success and mass media foster superficiality, replacing spiritual and moral values with hollow glitter. Through sharp cultural commentary, he warns of a society trapped by illusion—comforted by appearances yet morally decaying within. The “glittering coffin” symbolises modern civilisation’s dazzling exterior hiding inner death and disconnection.
