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Four French Holidays Anne Hall

Four French Holidays par Anne Hall

Four French Holidays Anne Hall

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Résumé

What four 20th c. novelists have made of their respective holidays in France.

Four French Holidays Résumé

Four French Holidays: Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France Anne Hall

Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family's 1923 battlefield-tour manque in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp's 1936 holiday in Southern France led to 'Still Waters' and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne Du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons' last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.

Four French Holidays Avis

This is a very original literary study of the work of four British writers who, though still remembered today, are not as celebrated or read as much as they deserve to be. Through the prism of visits to France in the novels and stories of these writers, Anne Hall explores the delicate and subtle interplay of relations between those two nations in fiction. It is elegantly written, illuminating and informative. There is some fascinating original scholarship here, but, above all, Four French Holidays is highly entertaining and tempts you to go and read for yourself (if you haven't already) or re-read the works under consideration. Reggie Oliver, nephew and biographer of Stella Gibbons

À propos de Anne Hall

Anne Hall was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She studied English and French and while working on a doctoral degree in French literature she moved permanently to France. She has taught at the universities of Tours and Aix-en-Provence. Fifteen years ago, her research into the Du Mauriers' French ancestry led her from Provence back to the Centre-Val de Loire region, where she is still living and writing. Also published by Unicorn The Du Mauriers Just as They Were and Angela Thirkell: A Writer's Life.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013182134
9781911397274
1911397273
Four French Holidays: Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France Anne Hall
Anne Hall
Occasion - Très bon état
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Unicorn Publishing Group
2023-03-01
144
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