Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Michael Nelson
£25.00
|
Artists and Their Museums on the Riviera by Barbara F. Freed  (2)
£8.42
|
Riviera: The Rise and Rise of the Cote D'Azur by Jim Ring |
Making Paradise: Art, Modernity and the Myth of the French Riviera by KE Silver
£22.75
|
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb  (7)
£9.49
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
See all 2 customer reviews...
Product Description
Synopsis
The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century. The Cote d'Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers" is a reader's journey along this fabled coast, from Hyeres and St. Tropez in the west to the Italian border in the east, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way, from distinguished Nobel laureates to new authors who found their voices there. Ted Jones's encyclopaedic work covers them all: writers such as Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant, whose work it dominates; and the countless writers who simply lingered there, including Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Bennett, William Boyd, Bertholt Brecht, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, A. A.Milne, Vladimir Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Tchekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf and W. B. Yeats - and many others.
From the Author
After visiting the Riviera for more than 20 years, I had become fascinated by its literary heritage. (Some would say 'obsessed'.) From the avenue Edith Wharton via the boulevard Somerset Maugham to the avenue Katherine Mansfield, almost every town and village proudly displays street names and plaques commemorating its association with some past writer. Yet when I tried to find some sort of literary guide to the region, there wasn't one. So I wrote this book. I hope I've done them justice. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century. The Cote d'Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers" is a reader's journey along this fabled coast, from Hyeres and St. Tropez in the west to the Italian border in the east, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way, from distinguished Nobel laureates to new authors who found their voices there. Ted Jones's encyclopaedic work covers them all: writers such as Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant, whose work it dominates; and the countless writers who simply lingered there, including Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Bennett, William Boyd, Bertholt Brecht, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, A. A.Milne, Vladimir Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Tchekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf and W. B. Yeats - and many others.
From the Author
After visiting the Riviera for more than 20 years, I had become fascinated by its literary heritage. (Some would say 'obsessed'.) From the avenue Edith Wharton via the boulevard Somerset Maugham to the avenue Katherine Mansfield, almost every town and village proudly displays street names and plaques commemorating its association with some past writer. Yet when I tried to find some sort of literary guide to the region, there wasn't one. So I wrote this book. I hope I've done them justice. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Hyères is the southernmost point of the Côte d'Azur, and its gateway. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Hyères is the southernmost point of the Côte d'Azur, and its gateway. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover