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If you have toured the home of a famed writer, seen the desk at which they worked, or visted their grave, you are a literary pilgrim, partaking in a form of tourism first popular in the Victorian era. In our free e-book for March, Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave, Simon Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott’s baronial mansion, Wordsworth’s cottage in the Lake District, the Brontë parsonage, Shakespeare’s birthplace, and Freud’s office in Hampstead. He gamely negotiates distractions ranging from broken bicycles to a flock of giggling Japanese schoolgirls, as he tries to discern what our forebears were looking for at these sites, as well as what they have to say to the modern pilgrim. Take your literary pilgrimage in our free e-book, Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave
“Wryly funny, deeply thoughtful musings on literary pilgrimage—why readers visit writers’ houses, and what, if anything, we gain by it.… Part travel memoir, part literary inquiry, with a large dose of history and frequent dashes of dry humor, this book will appeal to bookworms, Anglophiles and anyone who loves to visit historical sites but rolls their eyes at the overpriced rubbish in the gift shop.”—Shelf Awareness for Readers
Get the e-book edition of Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave free in March!
Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave is one of the quirky books in our Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel series. Other books in the series focus on country music, ancient Rome, and land art in the American West.
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For more books see our new Literature and Criticism catalog. The catalog features our latest books of criticism and theory along with fiction, books in translation, general interest literature, and the spoken word. See new books from Stanley Fish, Robert Pogue Harrison, and Roger Grenier. And back-in-print novels by Anthony Powell and Peter De Vries And German novels translated by Seagull Books. And (featured on the cover) a biography of the great Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Everything in the Literature and Criticism catalog is discounted 20%.
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