A Day's Tour (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, BergBy Percy Fitzgerald
Length2h 1m
About this audiobook
Percy Fitzgerald's *A Day's Tour* belongs to the rich Victorian tradition of literary travel, transforming a brief excursion into an occasion for observation, reflection, and social encounter. Rather than treating travel as mere movement between picturesque destinations, Fitzgerald attends to the changing landscapes, public spaces, local character, and everyday incidents encountered along the way. The work's appeal lies in its combination of brisk narrative progress, descriptive detail, anecdotal digression, and gentle humor—features that place it between the guidebook, the familiar essay, and the lightly fictionalized travel sketch. Its compact temporal frame also gives the journey a purposeful shape, revealing how much cultural and emotional significance can be discovered within an apparently ordinary day. Fitzgerald was a remarkably versatile Victorian man of letters: a novelist, biographer, artist, and keen observer of London's literary and theatrical life. His friendships and associations with figures such as Charles Dickens, together with his experience as an illustrator and journalist, encouraged a style attentive to visual impression, personality, and scene. These professional and social experiences help explain the book's sensitivity to both public spectacle and intimate human detail, as well as its confidence in addressing a broad, increasingly mobile reading public. Readers interested in Victorian travel, urban culture, popular literature, and the history of everyday observation will find *A Day's Tour* especially rewarding. It offers an accessible yet revealing portrait of how nineteenth-century writers converted leisure, landscape, and sociability into literature, while preserving the spontaneity and charm of an excursion shared with an intelligent companion.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length2 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 16, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Day's Tour (Annotated)
16DOUAI.
2A Journey through France and Belgium
17VII.
3PREFACE.
18ARRAS.
4A DAY'S TOUR.
19VIII.
5I.
20LILLE.
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6IN TOWN.
21IX.
7II.
22YPRES.
8DOVER.
23X.
9III.
24BERGUES.
10THE PACKET.
25XI.
11IV.
26ST. OMER.
12CALAIS.
27XII.
13V.
28ST. PIERRE LES CALAIS.
14TOURNAY.
29Memorable Quotes
15VI.
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