A reading journey along the French Riviera, from Hyères and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, showcasing the lives and works of the writers who passed through here.

The sunlight and tranquility of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the 14th century. The Côte d'Azur has provided inspiration and a backdrop for some of the greatest literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries.

From distinguished Nobel Prize winners to emerging writers who found their voice there, Ted Jones's guide covers all the authors: from Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there, to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant, whose works dominate.

The book also includes the countless writers who simply stayed there, such as Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, J.G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Bennett, William Boyd, Bertholt Brecht, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, A.A. Milne, Vladimir Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats - and many more.

Pages: 272, Year of Publication: 0415, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm