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Few cities can boast such a distinguished literary pedigree as Edinburgh. Burns, Scott, Conan Doyle, Buchan, Dorothy Dunnett and J.K. Rowling have all lived in the city; Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon convalesced there (inspiring Pat Barker's Booker-prize-winning Regeneration trilogy), and Dickens and Thackeray came on triumphant reading tours. Visitors have ranged from Defoe and George Eliot to Wordsworth, Hans Christian Anderson and the hundreds of renowned authors who now appear at one of the literary world's most important annual events - The Edinburgh International Book Festival.This new and hugely expanded edition of The Literary Companion to Edinburgh traces the city's history from the Old Town, dominated by the Castle and the High Streets with its numerous wynds and closes, to the elegant and spacious New Town and its surrounding villages.
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"...as near to a pocket-sized, comprehensive introduction to the "literary" city as might reasonably be sought.... -- Scotsman
"...entertaining and smoothly compiled, full of evocative descriptions and unexpected associations between writers and their milieu...." -- The Herald
Andrew Lownie's definitive guide ...A fascinating guide full of delightful anecdotes. -- Mail on Sunday
Indispensable guide to Scotland's cultural capital. -- Evening Standard
Lownie's research is impressive...This is an informative and practical guide which will be of considerable interest -- Daily Mail
Relating writers to parts of the city, Lownie marshals his facts well and presents them intelligently. -- Scotland on Sunday
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"...entertaining and smoothly compiled, full of evocative descriptions and unexpected associations between writers and their milieu...." -- The Herald
Andrew Lownie's definitive guide ...A fascinating guide full of delightful anecdotes. -- Mail on Sunday
Indispensable guide to Scotland's cultural capital. -- Evening Standard
Lownie's research is impressive...This is an informative and practical guide which will be of considerable interest -- Daily Mail
Relating writers to parts of the city, Lownie marshals his facts well and presents them intelligently. -- Scotland on Sunday
THe Edinburgh Literary Companion takes the reader on a guided tour of the city, from the numerous wynds and closes of the Old Town to the elegant and spacious New Torn, the University Quarter and Edinburgh's villages. Linking the city's literary past and present, the book is a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cultural capital as seen and recorded by writers through the centuries.
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- PublisherPolygon
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1904598617
- ISBN 13 9781904598619
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
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