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The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
Phyllis Richardson
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Description for The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AMK; AMX; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
Houses in literature have captured readers' imaginations for centuries, from Gothic castles to Georgian stately homes, Bloomsbury townhouses and high-rise penthouses. Step on to a tour of real and imagined houses that great English writers have used to reflect the themes of their novels... houses that became like characters themselves, embodiments of the social and historical currents of their time. Phyllis Richardson takes us on a journey through history to discover how authors' personal experiences in their homes helped to shape the imaginative dwellings that have become icons of English literature: Virginia Woolf's love of Talland ... Read more
Houses in literature have captured readers' imaginations for centuries, from Gothic castles to Georgian stately homes, Bloomsbury townhouses and high-rise penthouses. Step on to a tour of real and imagined houses that great English writers have used to reflect the themes of their novels... houses that became like characters themselves, embodiments of the social and historical currents of their time. Phyllis Richardson takes us on a journey through history to discover how authors' personal experiences in their homes helped to shape the imaginative dwellings that have become icons of English literature: Virginia Woolf's love of Talland ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Unbound
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783523801
SKU
V9781783523801
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About Phyllis Richardson
Phyllis Richardson has written several books on architecture and design, including the highly successful XS series, Nano House, and Superlight: Lightness in Contemporary Houses. She has written on architecture, urban development and travel for the Financial Times, the Observer and DWELL magazine. She has also published many literary reviews in the TLS and the now-defunct Los Angeles Times Book Review, ... Read more
Reviews for The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
If you want a good read should the weather turn, I recommend The House of Fiction, which tells Virginia Woolf's love of Talland House, in Cornwall, dramatised in To the Lighthouse, and the confessional delight of Jane Austen drinking too much wine in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor house.
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