Writers' Houses

Writers' Houses
Author: Nick Channer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 9780719806643


Download Writers' Houses Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Part 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.


Writers' Houses
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Francesca Premoli-Droulers
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The houses of writers are often places of both creation and inspiration, studio as much as home. This wonderful book takes readers into the intimacy of the home
Writers' Houses
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Nick Channer
Categories: Authors, English
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Part armchair travel, part reference, this is a journey into Britain's impressive literary and architectural heritage and an exploration of how beloved authors
Writers and Their Houses
Language: en
Pages: 552
Authors: Kate Marsh
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: H. Hamilton

GET EBOOK

Fifty essays by pre-eminent living authors on the literary masters of Great Britain and Ireland. The texts represent some fascinating match-ups: Margaret Drabbl
Writers' Houses
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Francesca Premoli-Droulers
Categories: Authors
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

GET EBOOK

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Anne Trubek
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

GET EBOOK

There 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 write