{"product_id":"genius-loci-vernon-lee-9780998704487","title":"Genius Loci: Notes on Places","description":"\u003cp\u003eVernon Lee was the pseudonym of the Franco-British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). For over 50 years, Paget churned out works of both fiction and nonfiction at the rate of nearly a book a year. Perhaps best remembered today for her supernatural short stories, Paget produced a number of books with essays about travel and place. \u003cem\u003eGenius Loci: Notes on Places\u003c\/em\u003e (1899) was her first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenius Loci \u003c\/em\u003eis not a guidebook or a novel, but an intimate diary or, better said, a series of \u003cem\u003ebillets-doux\u003c\/em\u003e to the places with which Paget has fallen in love. In the book, Paget offers vignettes and postcard-like snapshots of the memory and life of someone who attempted to breathe in the essence of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Paget's reflections and her erudite insights into the histories of place, art, and literature shine as brightly as they are fleeting. Though her travel writing is little read today, her presence is felt in contemporary travel literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenius Loci\u003c\/em\u003e represents travel for the sake of travel, experience for the sake of experience, love for the sake of love, and, not least, art for the sake of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Adventures in Ideas reissue contains a new foreword by Jeremy Bassetti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vernon Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998704482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998704487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Adventures in Ideas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.36d","brand":"Vernon Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43944628257023,"sku":"9780998704487","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4e413400-c54f-4a16-8549-874eb0ccb7ef.jpg?v=1681504465","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genius-loci-vernon-lee-9780998704487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}