Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Adrian Mourby
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 195,Width 128
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Museum, historic sites, gallery and art guides
ISBN/Barcode 9781785783388
ClassificationsDewey:910.202
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Icon Books
Imprint Icon Books
Publication Date 5 April 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination - from the Brontes' Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood's Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh cafe where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter's first adventures - Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature. Rooms of One's Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature.

Author Biography

Adrian Mourby was an award-winning BBC drama producer before turning to full-time writing. He has published three novels, two AA travel guides and a book of humour based on his Sony Award-winning Radio 4 series Whatever Happened To...? In recent years Adrian has won two Italian awards for his travel journalism. He also writes extensively on opera and has produced operas by Mozart, Handel and Purcell, both in the UK and in Europe.

Reviews

What kind of place makes us creative? Adrian Mourby has examined the rooms where thoughts and characters were born that still resonate across the ages. A fascinating study.' * Julian Fellowes * [Adrian Mourby's books are] indispensible holiday companions.' * Monocle magazine *