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The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

From the gothic fantasies of Walpole`s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors` personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.We encounter Jane Austen drinking `too much wine` in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf`s love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder`s return to Brideshead.Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, `House of Fiction` opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.

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