Rooms of one's own : 50 places that made literary history
Mourby, Adrian2017
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Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned 'Les Misérables' in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, 'Blithe Spirit', in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion. Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination - from the Brontës' Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood's Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh café where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter's first adventures - Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature.
Main title:
Rooms of one's own : 50 places that made literary history / Adrian Mourby.
Author:
Mourby, Adrian, author
Imprint:
London : Icon Books Ltd, 2017.
Collation:
245 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781785781858 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
809
Language:
English
BRN:
1873775