Spain in Mind: an Anthology From Byron, Trollope, and Wharton to Auden, Orwell, and Hemingway--Three Centuries of Great Writers Entranced by Spain

Name: Spain in Mind: an Anthology From Byron, Trollope, and Wharton to Auden, Orwell, and Hemingway--Three Centuries of Great Writers Entranced by Spain
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ISBN: 9781400076765

ISBN-10: 1400076765

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Edition: 2007

Authors: Alice Leccese Powers

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This spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers. Here are letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a comic tale by Anthony Trollope in which two Englishmen mistake a Spanish duke for a bullfighter. W. H. Auden, George Orwell, and Langston Hughes record their experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway takes on bullfighting, Richard Wright is beguiled by gypsy flamenco dancers, and Calvin Trillin pursues an obsession with Spanish peppers. From Chris Stewart’s memoir of his rural retreat inDriving Over Lemonsto Barbara…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.93" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Hemingway in Pamplona



Spain 1937



The village calendar



Letter to his mother



Candle hat



Picasso



Winter in Castile



#76



from Ten days in Spain



from Gatherings from Spain



Water-fairies and altars



Sirocco at Deya



from The dangerous summer



Letter from Spain; postcard from Spain



from Barcelona the Great Enchantress



Public fetes of Granada



from Collected travel writings



from Snowball oranges



Where the map stopped



Catalonian shore



On the victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards



from Don Fernando



Badajoz



from Travels with my donkey



Four cities



Spain



from A stranger in Spain



Holy Week in Seville



La montana



from Homage to Catalonia



from The foreigner



Holiday



Friends and foreigners



Pepper chase



John Bull on the Guadalquivir



from A Spanish lover



Visiting my daughter, an exchange student in Spain



from A backward glance



Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard



from Pagan Spain