Tuscany in Mind : From Byron and the Brownings to Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, and Penelope Fitzgerald--Two Centuries of Great Writers Seduced by Tuscany (Vintage Departures)

Powers (writing, Corcoran College of Art and Design), a freelance writer and editor of other books in the series, offers a guide to Tuscany through literary works--fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English and American writers, from Edith Wharton to Mark Twain. The excerpts include Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens, Where Angels Feat to Tread by E.M. Forster, Confidence by Henry James, and others by writers such as Erica Jong, D.H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy, Mary Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Each excerpt is preceded by a brief biography. There is no index. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)