Varieties of Darkness: The World of the English Patient

by Don Meredith

Book Overview

From Venice to Vietnam, from the Welsh coast to Cairo, Don Meredith has traveled in the wake of twentieth-century writers, using their novels and poems as guides, as another wayfarer might turn to Fodor's or the Guide Bleu. He has gone in search of the back streets, basilicas, cafes, piazzas, and countrysides that figured so powerfully in the works of authors who are especially attuned to a sense of place. Part travelogue, part literary study, Varieties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761857222
• ISBN13: 9780761857228
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher