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Novel destinations literary landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West
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- ISBN: 9781426203435 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 1426203438 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9781426203435 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 1426203438 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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remote - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Title from eBook information screen. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I. Read 'em and see: author houses and museums. Shakespeare's England -- More PLAYFUL destinations -- Atmospheric literary landscapes -- Southern comfort -- Poetic justice -- Literary houses on the prairie -- Contemplative places -- Literary adventurers -- Vampires, ghosts, & ravens -- Russian raconteurs -- Literary resting places -- Places of murder and mayhem -- On the trail of Agatha Christie -- II. Novel dispatches: writers at home and abroad. F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ernest Hemingway -- Mark Twain -- Edith Wharton -- Henry James -- III. Literary festivals, tours, and more. Toasting favorite authors -- Literary walking tours -- Libraries worth checking out -- Lit fests -- From page to screen -- IV. Booked up: literary places to drink, dine, and doze. Literary lodgings in the U.S. -- ... Abroad -- Bookish places to sip and sup -- Big Apple bars for bibliophiles -- Parisian cafes of the literati -- England's best literary pubs -- Six Hemingway watering holes -- V. Journeys between the pages -- Bath, England (Jane Austen) -- London, England (Dickens) -- Paris, France (Victor Hugo) -- Dublin, Ireland (James Joyce) -- Prague, Czech Republic (Franz Kafka) Concord, Mass. (Louisa May Alcott) -- Salem, Mass. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- Key West, Florida (Hemingway) -- Monroeville, Alabama (Harper Lee) -- Monterey and Salinas, California (John Steinbeck). |
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