Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World
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Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World
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Overview
A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again and again in their favorite books.
Organized by regions all around the world, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance of each literary landmark including the connection to the author and novel, cultural significance, historical information, and little-known facts about the location. He also includes travel advice like addresses and must-see spots.
Booked features special sections on cities that inspired countless literary works like a round of locations in Brooklyn from Betty Smith's iconic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn and a look at the New Orleans of Tennessee Williams and Anne Rice.
Locations include:
Central Park, NYC (The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger)
Forks, Washington (Twilight, Stephanie Meyer)
Prince Edward Island, Canada (Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario (Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood)
Holcomb, Kansas (In Cold Blood, Truman Capote)
London, England (White Teeth, Zadie Smith)
Paris, France (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo)
Segovia, Spain, (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway)
Kyoto, Japan (Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden)
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316420877 |
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| Publisher: | Running Press Book Publishers |
| Publication date: | 04/23/2019 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Sales rank: | 518,047 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
The Americas
United States: Northeast
Odd Occurrences at the Standpipe in Derry It Stephen King 1
Sweet Hours in Amherst: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson 3
The Mallard Family Finds a Home: Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey 4
Life in the Woods Outside Concord: Walden Henry David Thoreau 7
Finding Freedom in 1840s New Bedford: Moby-Dick Herman Melville and Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass 10
Mystical Sunsets Over Providence: The Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft 14
Holden Caulfleld's Central Park: The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 18
An Aching Affection for Newark: The Novels of Philip Roth 20
Literary Brooklyn Walt Whitman Betty Smith Truman Capote Marianne Moore Thomas Wolfe Alfred Kazin Paule Marshall Hubert Selby Jr. Jonathan Lethem 25
United States: South
Virginia's Swimming Pony: Misty of Chivcoteague Marguerite Henry 40
Scarlett O'Hara's Georgia Haunts: Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 42
A Mysterious Murder in Savannah's Old Town: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt 46
The Unsettled Past and Uncertain Future of Atticus Finch's Hometown: To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 48
In Small-Town Arkansas, The Smell of Fear and Guilt: The Memoirs of Maya Angelou 52
A Spiritual Home in New Orleans Tennessee Williams John Kennedy Toole Anne Rice 56
Other Notable: Literary Peaces 62
United States: Central
Home to Red Cloud: The Fiction of Willa Catber 64
The Clutter House in Holcomb, Kansas: In Cold Blood Truman Capote 67
What was Ideal, What Was Base: The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 69
The Tortured Relationship of a Minnesota Town and Its Native Son: Main Street Sinclair Lewis 70
United States: West
A Magic Bus in the Alaskan Woods: Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 74
The Vampiric Pleasures of Forks, Washington The Twilight Trilogy Stephenie Meyer 77
Nirvana at Desolation Peak: The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac 80
A Literary Road Trip Down the California Coast: The Beats, the Hippies John Steinbeck Robinson Jeffers Henry Millet Raymond Chandler 86
Canada
A Haunt of Ancient Peace: Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 98
The Haunting of Kingston Penitentiary: Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 101
Toiling in Ontario's Literary Garden: The Fiction of Alice Munro 104
Mexico and South America
A Forest of Symbols in the Mexican Desert: Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 108
A Cafe Is a State of Mind: The Novels of Roberto Bolano 110
A Street of Strivers in Port of Spain: The Novels of V. S. Naipaul 113
Europe
Elizabeth Bennet, Mistress of Pemberley: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 117
A Mile-Long Trail for the Queen of Crime: The Novels of Agatha Christie 120
The View from the Heath: Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 122
Tranquility Along the Riser Wye: "Lines Composed…a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," William Wordsworth 125
London Through the Ages Geoffrey Chaucer Charles Dickens Virginia Woolf George Orwell J.K Rowling Zadie Smith Poets' Corner 131
Scotland's Enchanted Neverland: Peter Pan J.M. Barrie 142
"When I Die Dublin Will Be Written in My Heart": Ulysses James Joyce 144
Trespasses Sweetly Urged- Places from the Plays: The Tragedies of William Shakespeare 149
The Combray Way: In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 156
The Breath of Paris: From the Towers to the Sewers: The Novels of Victor Hugo 158
On the Knight-Errant's Trail in La Mancha: Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 162
Music and Madness in a Mediterranean Monastery: A Winter in Majorca George Sand 164
In Search of the True Segovia Bridge: For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 169
Love and Loss in Florence: A Room with a View E. M. Forster 172
The Neighborhood That Put Stockholm on the Map: The Millennium Trilogy Stieg Larsson 174
A Steep, Steady Climb to Revelation: The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 178
An Awakening at Austerlitz: War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 182
An Evil Apartment in Moscow: The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 185
A Murder in St. Petersburg: Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 188
Asia and Oceania
Desire and Obsession in Istanbul: The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk 193
A Wild Garden in Kerala, India: The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 195
Last-Minute Escape at the Saigon Airport: The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 198
A Life-Changing Encounter on a Kyoto Bridge: Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 200
Leaving Thoughts of the World Behind The Narrow Road to the North Matsuo Basho 203
In Tokyo, a Portal to Another World: The Novels of Haruki Murakami 204
A Maori Legend from the New Zealand Coast: The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera 207
Africa
A Revelation at the Harare Sports Club: Martha Quest Doris Lessing 211
The Dickens of the Souk: The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 213
Tangier, the Dream City: The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles 216
Mma Ramotswe's Gaborone: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 219
Photo Credits 222
Index 223