Books author - "Xavier de Maistre"
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Description Xavier de Maistre lived mostly as a military man, fighting in France and Russia around the turn of the 19th century. In 1790 a duel he participated in led him to be put under arrest in Turin; during his confinement in a tiny chamber, he wrote his most famous work, βA Journey Round My Room.β βJourneyβ is a short story written as a parody of the grand travelogues popular at the time. He frames his six weeksβ confinement as a long journey across the unknown land of his room, visiting