A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature - Hardcover

Drabble, Margaret; Lewinski, Jorge

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9780394508191: A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039450819X ISBN 13: 9780394508191

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1979

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Selections from England's great writers, describing various sites and scenes, are accompanied by commentary on how those writers have affected our tastes

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Review:

'A sensitive and, at times, moving survey of the relationship between place and writer' --Contemporary Review

'Scholarly but also interesting ... there should be enough to get you walking as well as reading'
--Metro

'A glorious tour, a personal appreciation of British writers and their love of landscape.' --Southern Reporter

'Drabble ... reads writers' localities, ancient and modern, with an understanding of social history as deep as her knowledge of literature' --The Times

'Drabble makes lively connections, parallels and distinctions ... one of the great pleasures of the book [is] its quotations, generous in length, pertinently chosen.'
--The Spectator

'An enthralling read'
--Wharfedale and Airedale Observer

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