"LITERARY LANDSCAPES delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character, and our emotional response as readers. Fully illustrated with hundreds of full-color images throughout. Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere. As is the case with all great literature, the setting, scenery, and landscape are as central to the tale as...

Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it.0We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how essential 221B Baker Street was to Sherlock Holmes and the importance of Bag End to the adventuring hobbits...

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . . ." First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute polemic, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining...

"Una Habitaci�on Propia" esconde la reflexi�on que la autora hizo para un ciclo de conferencias sobre la literatura y la mujer. El ensayo recorre la historia literaria de la mujeres, cuyo fin �ultimo es el de reivindicar para el g�enero femenino la posibilidad de ser admitido en una cultura que hasta entonces se hab�ia mostrado como uso exclusivo de los hombres, en una sociedad inglesa de una pronunciada idiosincrasia patriarcal.En "Una...