Please link your reviews for your Classic Set in a Place You'd Like to Visit here. This is only for the Classic Set in a Place You'd Like to Visit category. If you like, include the place (if it isn't obvious) and why you'd like to visit in your review -- I'm sure readers would like to know!
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The Painted Veil was Naomi Watts was a pretty good movie version, though of course the ending was tampered with. If you like his more obscure novels, The Narrow Corner is worth the time. I'm not sure if Maugham would stand up real well under re-reading.
ReplyDeleteA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway covers his life in Paris in the 1920's. I would love to visit Paris!
ReplyDeleteRead Down and Out in Paris and London--have wanted to read it for a while, and would love to visit both places!
ReplyDeleteI read A Room with a View by E.M. Forster because I'd loved to see Florence some day. :)
ReplyDeleteI read A Moveable Feast by Hemingway. I have always wanted to visit paris!! My review is on Goodreads!
ReplyDelete"I absolutely LOVED this book. I am not usually a Hemingway fan. But A Moveable Feast was just amazing!!! The language he uses to describe places, people, and even food is just beautiful!!"
My choice was Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, which was set in New York. I'm an Aussie who would love to visit America, and especially the Big Apple, just once. It's a strange, but interesting classic.
ReplyDeleteI just linked my review of Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteArtemisia by Anna Banti isn't set in just one place, but she grows up in Rome, then moves to Florence with her father, back to Rome, on to Naples to stay for some twenty years before joining her father in London and returning to Rome after his death. Any of these cities would be fine with me!
ReplyDeleteI ended up reading Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare!) because I wouldn't mind going there... But I'm a bit of a homebody! Heehee.
ReplyDeleteI read The Magician's Nephew. Who wouldn't want to visit Narnia?
ReplyDeleteI read After You, Marco Polo. I just visited the many places Marco Polo did with Jean and Franc Shor. Their stay at Huzah was my favorite. *This was a non paralleled visit to Asia.
ReplyDeleteI read Alice in Wonderland (both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass). I had been wanting to read this classic for a long time. I must say I much preferred her adventures in Through the Looking Glass than in Wonderland.
ReplyDeleteDubliners by James Joyce - This book is a collection of 15 essays/short stories set in Dublin about 1900. I felt they were incomplete. The characters were not fully developed nor were the stories. This was more like a collection of story IDEAS to be expanded into stories.
ReplyDelete1. The Sisters - I don't understand why it is called Sisters when in fact it is about the death of Father Flynn, their brother who was a priest.
2. The Encounter - Two boys skip school for an adventure and meet a rather odd man. Why did they skip and why didn't the third boy? Who is the man? What is his story?
After this I ceased writing individual comments since there just wasn't much there. And the book did NOT give me a feel for Dublin at all.
Just posted my link to my thoughts on A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, set in England and Brazil. I've been to Jolly Ole England, so Brazil is the place (though not under the circumstances of Waugh's character.)
ReplyDeleteI changed my original choice to this one set in China: The Small Woman by Alan Burgess.
ReplyDeleteReview posted for Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's my dream to see Bath in England. Here's hoping all my dreams come true!
ReplyDeleteI just finished the noir classic Black Wings Has My Angel, which takes place mostly in the Colorado Rockies. I'd love to go hiking there one day!
ReplyDeleteFinished Once and Future King which takes place in England, and, more importantly, in Camelot! I wanted to get stuck in Camelot all through high school.
ReplyDeleteReading Romola by George Eliot made me realize I need to learn more about Florentine history if and when and I ever get to visit Italy!
ReplyDeleteI've read Mrs Harris goes to Paris. A funny and lovely book!
ReplyDeleteI read Understood Betsy, and while I certainly wouldn't complain about visiting a farm in Vermont, I think it is the people you visit that make the difference!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Rob Roy, I found that as much as I want to see Scotland, I wouldn't like to visit during 1715.
ReplyDeleteKaren, sorry to be a nuisance - I linked my post quite a while ago with the link to my old blog, then linked again with my new, so for this category (and only this category - I've checked) I have two links to More's Utopia as Behold the Stars (#1) and On Bookes(#30). Sorry about that... :(
ReplyDeleteI read Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer. I'd love to visit Bath one day.
ReplyDeleteThat fabled land of Shangri-La is my choice.
ReplyDeleteI read Kim by Rudyard Kipling -- I'll get to India one of these days. I struggled to finish this one, but glad I finished. There were "yikes, I'm pretty sure that's textbook Orientalism" passages. And other parts where Kipling seems to be openly mocking British colonialism more than I'd expected. And still other stretches where I was honestly just falling asleep. It's just the risk you run with some late 19th/early 20th century novels. Not my favorite book but glad I stuck it out.
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