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Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History by Adrian Mourby
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Category: Non-Fiction
Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérablesin an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of play ...Show more
Rooms with a View - The Secret Life of Grand Hotels by Adrian Mourby
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Category: Travel
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira, and the details of India's independence were worked out ...Show more
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