Telling the Time in British Literature, 1 : Hours of Folly?, Paperback by Tomalin, Marcus, ISBN 1032237406, ISBN-13 9781032237404, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the long eighteenth century meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of time-telling objects.