• Europe

Saint Petersburg/Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"...Petersburg... all the powers bestowed on her by Heaven..."

Vienna/Stefan Zweig

“…the city had grown like a tree, forming ring after ring…”

London/Virginia Woolf

“…rambling the streets of London.”

Dublin to Cork/James Joyce

“He saw the darkening lands slipping away past him…”

Prague/George Eliot

“…the blackened statues, as I passed under their blank gaze, along the unending bridge…”

Paris/Victor Hugo

“…composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.”

Paris/Gustave Flaubert

“…Paris, more vague than the ocean, glimmered before Emma’s eyes in an atmosphere of vermilion.”

The French Alps/Mary Shelley

“…the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth…”

Venice/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“…between them is a swarm of gondolas.”