Novel Houses
Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings
Distributed for the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
240 pages
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40 color plates
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6 x 9
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© 2019
Review Quotes
The New York Times
“Gaston Bachelard, whom Christina Hardyment cites at the opening of this agreeable book, once suggested that we might start a new form of psychiatric study based on the uses of houses as our memory banks. . . . Hardyment’s gentle challenge has been to identify and investigate the way a score of intensely recalled dwelling places have been transformed by their imaginative inhabitants into some of the best-loved — or feared — locations in Western literature."
Washington Independent Review of Books
Home is where the heart is — but can a home be the heart of a novel? That’s the literary question Christina Hardyment answers with a resounding ‘yes’ through the 20 loosely connected essays that make up her Novel Houses.”
Architectural Digest
“As Hardyment shows, the psychological import of our homes traverses time and place, and her transporting book will surely arouse new appreciation for your own.”
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