Description
| Product ID: | 9781783526932 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | House of Fiction |
| Subtitle: | From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great Houses in English Literature |
| Authors: | Author: Phyllis Richardson |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Residential buildings, domestic buildings |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Selected as one of The Times Books of 2017: a journey through the most iconic houses in English literature 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 House at St. Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder’s return to Brideshead. Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries, and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life. |
| Imprint Name: | Unbound Digital |
| Publisher Name: | Unbound |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-04-04 |