Many beloved novels have place at their heartand often even in their title. Throughout, the book invites us to consider how houses, while so fundamental to these stories, also reveal much about their authors passions and preoccupations. A winning combination of literary criticism, geography, and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses playwhether grand or small, unique or ordinary, real or imagined. Author:Christina Hardyment. Hardcover: 240 pages.

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