The wry romance of the literary rectory
The last outpost of time pastIrregular regularities : Sydney Smith at FostonTurning chaos into cosmos : Alfred Tennyson at SomersbyAn agreeable mystery : Dorothy L. Sayers at BluntishamGuardians of that holy land : Rupert Brooke at GrantchesterA dream of beauty : John Betjeman at FarnboroughThe deep...
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Thames & Hudson
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The last outpost of time pastIrregular regularities : Sydney Smith at FostonTurning chaos into cosmos : Alfred Tennyson at SomersbyAn agreeable mystery : Dorothy L. Sayers at BluntishamGuardians of that holy land : Rupert Brooke at GrantchesterA dream of beauty : John Betjeman at FarnboroughThe deep peace of wild places : R.S. Thomas at ManafonRooms of verse : George Herbert and Vikram Seth at BemertonThis entertainment is inexhaustible : the Benson and de Waal families at Lincoln. In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which they drew inspiration. Each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which they drew inspiration. Each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them |
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| Beschreibung: | 208 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0500516774 0-500-51677-4 9780500516775 978-0-500-51677-5 |