Literary Escapes

Exploring the Real-Life Settings of the World's Favourite Fiction

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025
Hardie Grant Books (Verlag)
9781761452772 (ISBN)

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Some stories couldn’t happen just anywhere or any time. Often the scenery, setting or era is as central to the tale as any character – and just as easily recognised. Literary Escapes brings together an eclectic collage of over 70 familiar literary worlds paired with original maps and archive material, as well as illustrations and photography.

In this collection of essays, the reader will become immersed in Les Misérables’ revolutionary Paris, feel the chill wind of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and hear the churning paddles of Mississippi steamboats in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Now in an updated new edition, with extended geographic scope and new entries.

John Sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. His books include How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide and Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers. He acts as a general editor to a team of literary critics including Michael Bourne, Daniel Hahn, Maya Jaggi, Robert Macfarlane, Laura Miller, Xenobe Purvis, Eric Rabkin, and Susan Shillinglaw

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	4 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	South Yarra
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 234 mm
Gewicht	822 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781761452772 / 9781761452772
Zustand	Neuware