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Experience Madrid through the lives and works of the city's most celebrated artists and writers.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Map 1. Introduction 2. Madrid in the Golden Age 3. The Titans of Madrid 4. Madrid Switches to Bourbon 5. A Romantic Awakening 6. Man of Las Palmas 7. 1898 and All That 8. The Return of the Poets 9. Madrid at War and Peace 10. Madrid on the Movida Madrid Bookshops Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Jules Stewart is a journalist and author. He was born in New York and was a lecturer in Spanish language and literature before moving to Madrid, where he lived for twenty years. He now lives in London. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan’s Plains: The Story of Britain’s Afghan Wars; and Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s (I.B.Tauris).

Reviews

Stewart [...] give[s] a full and rewarding portrait of this city that he clearly knows intimately, paving the way for fellow explorers, both in the literal and literary sense.
*New York Journal of Books*

A tour de force. No one knows Madrid better than Jules Stewart, and there could be no better guide to the city’s rich literary past. Destined to become required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in Spain.
*Jason Webster, author of 'Andalus and Sacred Sierra'*

For an elegantly written and deeply knowledgeable literary tour of Madrid, there could be no better guide than this wonderful volume by Jules Stewart.
*Sir Paul Preston, author of 'The Spanish Civil War'*