The French Riviera : a literary guide for travellers / Ted Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Ted (Travel writer)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks--France--Riviera--Guidebooks.

Literary landmarks.

Riviera (France)--Guidebooks.

Riviera (France).

France--Riviera.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

xvii, 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2003.

Summary:

This one-of-a-kind literary travel guide to the Riviera is refreshingly accessible and enthusiastic, with a full literary bibliography of works and authors cited. The sunlight and matchless calm of the French Riviera have drawn countless writers into its embrace: the Cote d'Azur has provided inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The French Riviera offers a literary tour of the region, covering the lives and work of all the writers who found inspiration there--from Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant. Ted Jones' encyclopedic work covers them all, including Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, JG Ballard, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.

ISBN:

186064967X

OCLC:

52921605