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Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

by Paul Fussell · 1979

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A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

Subject
travelhistoryliterary criticism
Themes
travelwriters
Setting
20th centuryEnglandBritish
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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