The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers (Literary Guides for Travellers)

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The sunlight and the calm of the French Riviera have drawn countless writers into its embrace: the Cote DAzur has provided inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The French Riviera offers a literary tour of the region covering the lives and work of all the writers who found inspiration there--from Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham who spent their lives there through those writers whose work it dominates such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant to those who simply lingered there. Ted Jones encyclopedic work covers them all including Louisa May Alcott Hans Christian Andersen J.G. Ballard Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Sylvia Plath Virginia Woolf and W.B. Yeats.