The Atlas of Literature

Here is a unique tour of literature through the ages and across the continents, focusing on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and time, and capturing towns, cities, and regions in their literary heyday. More than 80 essays explore places including Shakespeare's Stratford, Jane Austen's Bath, Hawthorne's New England, James Joyce's Dublin, Paris in the twenties, Harlem, Broadway, Hollywood, and many others. 500 illustrations, including color photos and maps.