When the first of Robert M. Cooper's Literary Travel Guides (Southern England) was published in 1985, The Christian Science Monitor predicted that the books would become classics. The intervening years have proved that prophecy correct as the other two books (Middle and Northern England) in the popular series followed in subsequent years. The three guides have delighted travelers, both actual and armchair, and continue to do so as the recently released revised volume on Southern England demonstrates.

If you love England; if you love literature; if you have wanted to see where George Bernard Shaw wrote Man and Superman; be in Jane Austen's room with the squeaking door; stand in the yard where Aunt Betsey Trotwood chased the donkeys; share Charlotte Bronte's despair in her bedroom in Haworth Parsonage; or find the very hillside of Wordsworth's daffodils, these books are for you. With sprightly, readable anecdotes and solid historical information about real and fictitious people and places who have populated English literature from Chaucer forward, the books will enrich your English travel.

Complete with easy-to-follow road maps of each county and several complete walking tours of towns with literary interest, these books are perfect to carry with you as you make your own tour of discovery in the land with which we share so much of our literary heritage. Your vacation holiday can only be enhanced by these wonderful books that join 19th century literature with modern day England.

Whether or not you wish to purchase any of the books, available through local bookstores and on the Internet through Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, Robert Cooper's widow, Polly Cooper, would love to hear from you. Click here to send e-mail to her at: PollyC0123@aol.com.