Writers' Houses: a Literary Journey in England
Author: John Michael Drinkbow Hardwick
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Published: 1968
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Author: John Michael Drinkbow Hardwick
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Published: 1968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mollie Hardwick
Publisher: London : Phoenix House
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 120
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Published: 1986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Michael Drinkrow Hardwick
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 102
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Published: 1968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christina Hardyment
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2000-11-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810967052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvocatively illustrates Britain's landscapes with paintings & photographs of sites made famous in classic books. Subsidiary Rights: Selected by Quality Paperback Book Club.
Author: Nick Channer
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780719806643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart armchair travel, part reference, this is a journey into Britain's impressive literary and architectural heritage and an exploration of how beloved authors drew inspiration from their homes Britain's wealth of historic houses is acknowledged and admired throughout the world, as is its reputation for producing some of the greatest novelists, poets and playwrights of all time. Many of these leading writers lived, worked, and found inspiration in a variety of houses the length and breadth of the land. Offering insight into the daily routines of popular authors, this book looks at several authors' homes, examining how their surroundings affected their works. Among the homes and gardens examined are Agatha Christie's secluded West Country retreat, the Worcestershire country seat that became the model for a grandiose ancestral pile in Evelyn Waugh's enduring novel, Brideshead Revisited, Enid Blyton's much-loved cottage garden in the leafy Thames Valley, the ancient, timber-framed residence in Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare spent his boyhood, and the moated house and garden in East Sussex that inspired the evocative setting for a Sherlock Holmes story.
Author: Harald Hendrix
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1135908052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of self-fashioning is subsequently appropriated within various strategies and policies of cultural memory.
Author: Anne Trubek
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-07-11
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0812205812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Author: Rosemary Gray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2017-01-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1509845992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.