Literary Britain

"A classic collection of photographs from one of England's greatest artists, Bill Brandt. This volume, the first American edition of Brandt's masterwork, consists of 75 images informed by the great heritage of British poetry and prose. Included are photographs of William Wordsworth's room at Dove Cottage, Shaw's Corner, Glamis Castle from Macbeth, and the scene of Oscar WIlde's imprisonment at Reading Gaol. From the brooding beauty of Withens, the house which was the model for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, to the Cooling Graveyard from Dickens's Great Expectations, these photographs echo the richness of Britain's literary legacy and the eloquence of Brandt's camera eye"--Publisher description.