The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste in Literary Switzerland [Audiobook] download free by Padraig Rooney
- Listen audiobook: The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste in Literary Switzerland
- Author: Padraig Rooney
- Release date: 2016/7/27
- Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781857886368
- Rating: 9.28 of 10
- Votes: 56
- Review by: Archer Wolford
- Review rating: 8.63 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/18
- Duration: 4H0M29S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: TTA, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WMA Lossless (compression RPM, Z, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M32S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on the goings on of poets Byron and Shelley - and their womenfolk - across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre. Together they put Switzerland on the map.Switzerland has always provided a refuge for writers attracted to it as an escape from world wars, oppression, tuberculosis... or marriage. While often for Swiss writers from Rousseau to Bouvier the country was like a gilded prison or sanatorium. The Romantics, the utopians (Wells, D. H. Lawrence) and other spiritual seekers (Hesse), viewed Switzerland as a land of milk and honey, as nature's paradise. In the twentieth century, spying in neutral Switzerland, spawned espionage and detective fiction from Conan Doyle to Maugham, Fleming, and Le Carre.Padraig Rooney finds the rooms crammed with curios: lederhosen and Lepidoptera, spas and spies, fool's gold and numbered accounts. Literary detective work and treasure chest, history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet will make you strap on your skis and go off-piste to find out the real Swiss story.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Literary, European History, Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900, Guidebooks, Literary Studies: General
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.38 USD
- Dimensions: 154x240x68mm
- Weight: 630g
- Printed by: NICHOLAS BREALEY PUBLISHING
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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