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The Gilded Chalet
- Travels through Literary Switzerland
Engelsk Paperback
The Gilded Chalet
- Travels through Literary Switzerland
Engelsk Paperback

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Om denne bog

In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre. Together they put Switzerland on the map.

From Rousseau to Nabokov, le Carré to Conan Doyle, Hemingway to Hesse to Highsmith, Switzerland has always provided a refuge for writers as an escape from world wars, oppression, tuberculosis... or marriage. For Swiss writers from the country was like a gilded prison. The Romantics, the utopians and other spiritual seekers viewed Switzerland as a land of milk and honey, as nature''s paradise. In the twentieth century, spying in neutral Switzerland spawned the finest espionage and crime fiction.

Part detective work, part treasure chest, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of the birthplace of our best-loved stories, revealing how Switzerland became the landscape of our imagination.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781857886528
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1857886526
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 feb 2017
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
132mm
Forlag:
John Murray Press
Oplagsdato:
9 feb 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge