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History of a Six Weeks' Tour

History of a Six Weeks' Tour

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Number of Chapters: 11

Length: 02 hours and 19 minutes

Language: English

Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. They describe two trips, both taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc". Apart from the poem, the text was primarily written and organized by Mary Shelley. - Summary by 1817

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Preface. (BettyB)
Author's Introduction. (BettyB)
France. (Kalynda)
Switzerland. (BettyB)
Germany. (BettyB)
Holland. (BettyB)
Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter I. (BettyB)
Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter II. (BettyB)
Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter III. (Pamela Nagami)
Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter IV. (BettyB)
Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni. (BettyB)
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