The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers - Couverture souple

Jones, Ted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845114558 ISBN 13 : 9781845114558

Editeur : Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2007

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ted Jones is a writer and journalist who specialises in travel and the arts, dividing his time between Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, and Windsor, England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845114558
• ISBN 13: 9781845114558
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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