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House of Fiction - From Pemberley to Brideshead Great British Houses in Literature and Life - cover

House of Fiction - From Pemberley to Brideshead Great British Houses in Literature and Life

Phyllis Richardson

Casa editrice: Wilton Square

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In House of Fiction 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.
Disponibile da: 12/02/2026.
Lunghezza di stampa: 549 pagine.

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