The Grave Tour

The Grave Tour is an evocative illustrated literary travelogue, a tour of Europe centered around the graves of some of the many English-language writers who travelled there over the last couple of centuries and never came back. Moving from Paris to Switzerland, through the great Italian cities and eventually to Greece, it tells the stories of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Tobias Smollett, before concluding with the three great Romantics - Shelley, Keats, and Byron. It's at once a travel guide and a meditation on a lost age when books and writers mattered. And it's a celebration, too, of the world those writers left us, the world of the Orient Express and a Florentine room with a view and the Paris of Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, a world ripe with mystery and endless possibilities...

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