Lives Of Houses

Author: Hermione Lee; Kate Kennedy

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  • : 9780691193663
  • : Princeton University Press
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  • : July 2020
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  • : Hermione Lee; Kate Kennedy
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  • : 2010
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  • : English
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Description

A group of notable writers — including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow — celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.