Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History
Author: Adrian Mourby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 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 Miserables in an attic in Guernsey and Noel Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion. Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50...
Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History