A journey round my room by Xavier de Maistre
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"A journey round my room" by Xavier de Maistre is a book written in 1794. Confined to his room for 42 days after fighting an illegal duel, de Maistre transforms his punishment into an imaginative travelogue. He explores his furniture, imagines dialogues with classical figures, and reflects on absent love. Written in the style of an 18th-century travel narrative, the work argues that pleasure depends not on exotic destinations but on one's
mindset—finding fascination in everyday surroundings rather than distant lands. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Maistre, Xavier de, 1763-1852 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Attwell, Henry, 1834-1901 |
| Uniform Title | Voyage autour de ma chambre. English |
| Title | A journey round my room |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_Around_My_Room |
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Produced by Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French literature -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 62519 |
| Release Date | Jun 29, 2020 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 806 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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