TY - BOOK AU - Maistre,Xavier de AU - Attwell,Henry TI - A journey round my room AV - PQ PY - 2020/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French literature -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_Around_My_Room; Release date is 2020-06-29; Produced by Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "A journey round my room" by Xavier de Maistre is a book written in 1794. Confined to his room for 42 days after fighting an illegal duel, de Maistre transforms his punishment into an imaginative travelogue. He explores his furniture, imagines dialogues with classical figures, and reflects on absent love. Written in the style of an 18th-century travel narrative, the work argues that pleasure depends not on exotic destinations but on one's mindset—finding fascination in everyday surroundings rather than distant lands. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62519 ER -