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Pavilions Of The Heart -The Four Walls of Love by Lesley Blanch

Pavilions Of The Heart -The Four Walls of Love by Lesley Blanch

$20.00

A hard cover edition with rose coloured cloth boards, gilt lettering and unclipped, illustrated dust cover. There is a black ink stamp on the inside front page and on the top edge of the book. There is some foxing and toning throughout but the text, black and white and colour illustrations are clear and legible. There is some rubbing and wear to the edges of the dust cover. Now in a clear, removable cover to protect from damage.

Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons

Publication Date: 1974

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SKU E000173
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“Lesley Blanch takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination, Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton’s scandalous affair conducted in a modest house near Wimbledon; Balzac’s Parisian love-nest created for his Polish inamorata; the estate of Woronince in the steppes of southern Russia from where Liszt and Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein had to flee; and the house overlooking Lake Lucerne where Wagner and Cosima von Bulow came together. She conjures Sultan Murad’s room in the Seraglio and tells the story of Aurelie Picard, whose pavilion of the heart was deep in the Saharan desert. Replete with drama, history and passion, “Pavilions of the Heart” is a seductive and lyrical glimpse at the places where love has reigned.”

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 Aurélie Picard, whose pavilion of the heart was deep in the Saharan desert.
WARNING; May contain material that could cause offense to some readers. 18t.