Decorating a room of one's own : conversations on interior design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and other literary notables / by Susan Harlan ; illustrations by Becca Statlander.
I. Ancestral Estates (Real and Fake); Elizabeth and Darcy's Neither Formal nor Falsely Adorned Pad of Privilege ; Cathy and Heathcliff's Ghost-Infested Residence of Revenge and Regret ; Leicester and Honoria's Rain-Soaked Place in Lincolnshire ; Sebastian's (Relocated) Castle of Catholic Family Issues ; Jay Gatsby's Desperately Sad McMansion of Unfulfilled Dreams -- II. Crazy Castles. King Arthur's Battlefield-Inspired, Hypermasculine Mythic Castle ; Count Dracula's Coffin-Filled Castle of Casements and Casualties ; Lady Macbeth's Murderous Mansion of Blood and Death ; Jane and Edward's Fire-Ravaged Gothic Ruin ; Victor's Charnel House-Esque Hideous Progeny of a Palace ; III. Urban Living; Miss Havisham's Decaying Domicile of Disappointed Love ; John and Sherlock's Baker Street Rooms for Ruminating ; Margaret and Helen's Cultured and Smart City Home; Clarissa's Westminster Party Pad For Sad Parties About Death ; Stella and Stanley's Not Overly Welcoming New Orleans Walk-up -- IV. Family Pads. Dorothy's Cyclone-Plagued Prairie Farmhouse ; George and Winifred's Enchanted Edwardian Edifice ; The Marches' Massachusetts Woman Cave ; Marilla and Matthew's God-Fearing Avonlea Orphan Sanctuary ; Maria and Georg's Anti-Fascist, Music-Filled Salzburg Lake House -- V. Quirky Dwellings. Ishmael's White-Whale-Worthy Ship of Dreams ; Pippi's Unregulated and Potentially Dangerous Villa of Pandemonium ; The Professor's Book-Filled Bachelor Pad for Children Fleeing Air Raids ; Unnamed Neurasthenic Narrator's Yellow-Wallpapered Rest and Recovery Room; Mistress Mary's Melancholic Manor and Secret Outdoor Space -- VI. Cottages, Cabins, and Hovels. The Green Knight's Green Home of Fecund Fecundity ; Raskolnikov's Domicile of Delirium and Disorder; The Dashwoods' Casual and Tolerably Comfortable Cottage ; The Swiss Family Robinson's Ingenious Tropical Tree House; Connie and Clifford's War-Ravaged Family Seat Plus Hut in the Woods.
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