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Malcolm Bradbury
Author
Description
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the...
Pub. Date
©1996
Description
Uses maps, essays, and photographs to explore the connection between writers and place, looking at houses and communities where authors lived and worked, places they frequented, and the impact of their writings on those places, and visiting some of the settings and scenes from the books themselves.
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