Rooms of One's Own : 50 Places That Made Literary History

Author(s): Adrian Mourby

Literature

Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Mis�rablesin an attic in Guernsey and No�l Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion.
Award-winning BBC drama producerAdrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Bront�s’ Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh caf� where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter’s first adventures – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today ofthat great moment in literature.
Rooms of One’s Owntakes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature.

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Adrian Mourby was an award-winning BBC drama producer before turning to full-time writing. He has published three novels, two AA travel guides and a book of humour based on his Sony Award-winning Radio 4 series Whatever Happened To...? In recent years Adrian has won two Italian awards for his travel journalism. He also writes extensively on opera and has produced operas by Mozart, Handel and Purcell, both in the UK and in Europe.

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  • : 9781785781858
  • : Icon Books Ltd
  • : Icon Books Ltd
  • : June 2017
  • : 19.80 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2017
  • : books

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  • : Adrian Mourby
  • : Hardcover
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  • : English
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