Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
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Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Paul Fussell
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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.
Genres: TravelNonfictionHistoryLiterary CriticismEssaysBritish LiteratureWriting20th CenturyBooks About BooksAnthologies
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