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Literary Journeys
- Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature
Engelsk Hardback
Literary Journeys
- Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature
Engelsk Hardback

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A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred yearsFrom Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Melville’s Moby-Dick, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, some of the most powerful works of fiction center on a journey. Extending to the ends of the earth and spanning from ancient Greece to today, Literary Journeys is an enthralling book that takes you on a voyage of discovery through some of the most important journeys in literature. In original essays, an international team of literary critics, scholars, and other writers explore exciting, dangerous, tragic, and uplifting journeys in more than seventy-five classic and popular works of fiction from around the world. Chronologically arranged and gorgeously illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, photographs, and maps in full color, this captivating book will appeal to readers who have travelled widely, who are planning a trip, or who love armchair travel. Contributors include Robert McCrum, Susan Shillinglaw, Maya Jaggi, Robert Holden, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Alan Taylor, Michael Bourne, Sarah Mesle—and dozens more.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780691266398
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0691266395
Udg. Dato:
10 sep 2024
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
177mm
Forlag:
Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato:
10 sep 2024
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