Lesley Blanch here takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings - caves, convents, harems and villas - where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Her subjects are chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination. Some of the stories are of great and famous love affairs, others largely unknown - though no less intriguing. Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's scandalous affair in a suburban house in London; ...
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Lesley Blanch here takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings - caves, convents, harems and villas - where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Her subjects are chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination. Some of the stories are of great and famous love affairs, others largely unknown - though no less intriguing. Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's scandalous affair in a suburban house in London; Pushkin and Countess Woronzov's trysts in a cave beside the Black Sea; Wagner and Cosima's Swiss villa; the doomed Carlotta and Maximilian's palace at Chapultepec; Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal's hidden room in crumbling Chatham Place and Chopin and George Sand's long years in her beloved Nohant. She resurrects Sultan Murad's room in the Seraglio and the madrassa of Bibi Hanum - Tamerlane's favourite wife - and tells the extraordinary story of Aur???lie Picard, whose pavilion of the heart was deep in the Saharan desert.
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Add this copy of Pavilions of the Heart: The Four Walls of Love to cart. $14.90, very good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by I. B. Tauris & Company.
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Very Good. NEW/UNUSED-some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light marks. Book content is in like new condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Tauris Parke Paperbacks.
Add this copy of Pavilions of the Heart: The Four Walls of Love to cart. $15.08, good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by I. B. Tauris & Company.
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Good. Some wear at edges and corners. Some storage scratches and creasing to cover. Minor crease marks to 1st several pages. Text excellent, clean and unread. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Tauris Parke Paperbacks.
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Add this copy of Pavilions of the Heart: the Four Walls of Love to cart. $11.50, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by G.P. Putmam's Sons.
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56pp B&W ill., 8pp color Ill. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/clipped price, in mylar; pictorial end papers; 192 clean, unmarked pages.
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Very Good/Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall 0399112243 The book has the previous owner's name in pen on the first page. The jacket has the price clipped.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 192 pages, with 8 pages of colour and 56 pages of b/w illustrations, index, illustrated end-papers. Cloth boards in dust-jackets. The author takes a number of houses, rooms, castles to illustrate her theme--the settings where lovers have united for a while, a night or a lifetime. The subjects have been chosen from a wide range of countries and settings, including a modest house near Wimbledon, the Seraglio, and Kourdane, a sumptuous house in the Sahara built by a Frenchwoman to consummate her love for the desert, rather than for the Arab prince she married.
