Author Name: EAGLE, Dorothy & Hilary Carnell
Title: Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust wrapper
Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press 1977
ISBN Number: 0198691238 / 9780198691235
Seller ID: 3453
13 maps and 413 pages; Clean navy binding, spine foot lightly bumped, pages age browned but not brittle. A few soil spots to page edges, some underlining and notes by previous owner; no binding problems. Dust wrapper, not price clipped, is lightly edgeworn with some creases and one short closed tear at spine head, a bit of rubbing and 'w/ maps' written in ink on the front cover. ; This is a comprehensive guide to the literary associations of Great Britain and Ireland. 'Entries range from Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, to Zennor, the Cornish village where D. H. Lawrence and his wife lived in 1916-17. In between come entries on cities, towns, villages, houses, castles, schools, inns, and districts connected with the lives and works of over 900 writers from Bede to Tolkien.' A fascinating reference for planning a trip or for the armchair traveller.
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