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Publisher
Emons Verlag GmbH
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Where can you see the first printing book in Britain? Which library has no books? What happened when Sigmund Freund met Salvador Dali? What is the mystery of the signed copy of Mein Kampf? And why did two of the Brontë sisters come to London to confront their publisher? This guidebook takes you deep into the world of authors and stories across literary London."--
Author
Publisher
Living Books Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children's books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love. In Edinburgh, they stand outside the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson. They discover the countryside that inspired Caldecott's illustrations in Whitworth....
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Language
English
Description
Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations-a guide for bibliophiles to more than 500 literary sites across the United States and Europe. Check into Hemingway's favorite hotel in Sun Valley, or stroll about Bath's Royal Crescent...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This volume presents the story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its...
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