Footsteps - Adventures of a Romantic Biographer  -  Richard Holmes

Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (King Penguin)

KORTE INHOUD

Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelly and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to th...
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1986 Uitgever: Penguin 288 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140088601 ISBN-13: 9780140088601