Madrid: A Literary Guide for Travellers

ISBN-13: 9781788310994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

UK) Jules Stewart (Independent Writer

Opis

Madrid has now overtaken Barcelona to become Spain's most visited and popular city.

Recenzje

Stewart [...] give[s] a full and rewarding portrait of this city that he clearly knows intimately, paving the way for fellow explorers, both in the literal and literary sense. New York Journal of Books

Spis treści

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMap1. Introduction2. Madrid in the Golden Age3. The Titans of Madrid4. Madrid Switches to Bourbon5. A Romantic Awakening6. Man of Las Palmas7. 1898 and All That8. The Return of the Poets9. Madrid at War and Peace10. Madrid on the MovidaMadrid BookshopsSelect BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Jules Stewart is a journalist and author. He was born in New York and was a lecturer in Spanish language and literature before moving to Madrid, where he lived for twenty years. He now lives in London. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser's Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars; and Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s (I.B.Tauris). In addition, he is the author of Crimson Snow: Britain's First Disaster in Afghanistan; The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier; Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya; and The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda.