House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

by Phyllis Richardson

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From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature. We encounter Jane Austen drinking "too much wine" in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf's love of Talland...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1783526939

ISBN13:9781783526932

Release Date:May 2021

Publisher:Unbound

Length:480 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

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