The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland lists almost 1,800 places: cities, towns, villages, districts and houses, where writers lived and worked, or were born, educated, or buried, and interweaves details of each location with anecdote and quotation.
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland lists almost 1,800 places: cities, towns, villages, districts and houses, where writers lived and worked, or were born, educated, or buried, and interweaves details of each location with anecdote and quotation.
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First published in 1977, this classic reference work is a gazetteer of almost 2,000 places - villages, towns, cities, and landscapes - in Britain and Ireland detailing their connections with the lives of famous writers. It invites the reader to explore the places where their favourite writers - from Jane Austen to Philip Pullman - were born, lived, were educated, worked, and drew inspiration. The entries elegantly interweave information with anecdote and quotation,to build a vivid picture of the day-to-day lives of the writers. The Guide is the ideal resource and companion for any literay pilgrimage in Britain or Ireland, and for the armchair literary traveller.New to this edition are special feature entries on writers particularly associated with places, including the Brontes, Walter Scott, and James Joyce, contributed by high-profile authors including Margaret Drabble and John Sutherland. The Guide also provides an index of author names, with mini biographies, enabling the reader to track down all the places associated with their favourite writers.It is stunningly illustrated throughout, with colour plates, contemporary black-and white photographs, and beautifully illustrated maps of major literary cities such as Bath, Edinburgh, Dublin, and London, and boasts a fresh new design.
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Hahn
Daniel Hahn is a freelance editor, translator and writer. He is author of The Tower Menagerie, and co-editor of the award-winning series of reading guides for children, The Ultimate Book Guides. He was Margaret Drabble's key researcher and writer on the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature and was assistant editor on the Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature and on OUP's Good Fiction Guide. He has worked regularly with Shakespeare's Globe and Human Rights Watch and lives in Brighton.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Hahn
- 2008, Maße: 23,3 x 4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Ed. by Daniel Hahn, Nicholas Rolin
- Herausgegeben: Daniel Hahn, Nicholas Robins
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198614608
- ISBN-13: 9780198614609
Sprache:
Englisch
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The Guide's aim (so wonderfully achieved) is to amuse and inform. Toby Barnard, TLS Beautiful, browsable book. Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Pretty much perfect Classic FM
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