Bookworm pilgrims who want to spend a longer time in the company of the spirits of their favorite authors can even rest in the former homes of some of them, which are now operating as hotels.
One of James Bond's favorite sayings can be heard around the Golden Eye boutique hotel in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay: "Shaked, not stirred." The former house of Ian Fleming, who dreamed up the character of the legendary agent 007, now serves as a hotel for guests, who can even evoke the spirit of James Bond with a cocktail at the bar. Before becoming a writer, Fleming was in Jamaica on a naval intelligence mission in the 1940s. He fell in love with the Oracabessa Bay area and vowed to return one day. He kept this promise, and after acquiring 15 hectares of land, he made a home for himself on the wonderful property. Here he wrote the novels Dr. No, The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die.
Even after the author's death, the property retained the glittering, sexy and sophisticated milieu that defined the life and works of the British spy-turned-writer.
The Fleming villa is the perfect embodiment of luxury and seclusion. This two bedroom villa has two additional guest houses, private butler and cook, private beach and swimming pool. It is also home to Fleming's former desk, where many of Agent 007's stories were written.
Agatha Christie is the queen of the detective novel, and the author's real life - including her disappearance for weeks in 1926 - is as rich as the plot of her stories. Fans of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot can get closer to the spirit and genius of the master of the genre by staying at the writer's former cottage in Devon, England.
The stately 18th century home, Greenway, was where Agatha Christie stayed for Christmas and summer.
It is currently maintained by the National Trust and is open to the public. Those who book the private apartment inside the castle will have a huge, two-story, four-bedroom apartment with its own garden connection. If we stay there for the night, even after the visitors have left, we can feel as if we have fallen into one of the author's novels.
While the modern guest house has quite a few modern amenities, the rest of Greenway is styled as it was in Agatha Christie's time in the 1950s.
The home is filled with items from the author's own collection, including finds from archaeological digs that were featured in the novel Death on the Nile. If you are there, be sure to visit the boathouse, which is the scene of a murder in the writer's 1956 novel Dead Man's Folly.
Two famous poets also called the huge, more than 800-year-old Florentine villa, Torre di Bellosguardo, their home. The building was built in the 13th century by Guido Cavalcanti, one of the greatest poets of Renaissance Italy and the best friend of Dante Alighieri.
Originally intended as a family home and hunting lodge, it is located on a hill with a stunning view of Florence (hence the name of the hotel: "the tower of the beautiful view").
Over the centuries, the villa became the home of the Medici family, who ruled Tuscany for about 300 years. The XX. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was owned by another famous poet, Gabriele D'Annunzio. In 1990, after ten years of restoration, the Torre di Bellosguardo was reborn as a 16-room hotel with museum-quality antiquities and original frescoes by the Renaissance artist Bernardino Poccetti.
The property is still a popular retreat for those looking for inspiration in the Tuscan hills.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams chose the former Midtown Manhattan Hotel Elysée, now a popular hotel, as his home during the last period of his life. Williams, who was immortalized primarily by the works Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Streetcar of Desire, moved to the Elysée in the late 1960s and lived there until his death in 1983.
During his stay here, he allegedly kept the residents awake with his incessant, round-the-clock clicking typewriter.
Formerly known as the Sunset Suite, the 900 square meter space has now been renamed the Tennessee Williams Suite. The walls of the building are decorated with photographs and handwritten notes from the playwright's life and career.
The idyllic English country homes, with their sprawling grounds, walls full of works of art, and names worthy of their place in history, are almost present as characters in Jane Austen's novels.
Who can forget Elizabeth Bennett's reaction when she first laid eyes on Mr. Darcy's estate, Pemberley, or the Gothic castle, Northanger Abbey, to which Austen devoted an entire book?
After her father's death, Jane Austen moved from house to house with her mother and sister. Some of these temporary homes are now even home to Austen fans. Most notable is the London townhouse of Jane's favorite brother Henry, where the writer stayed several times and where she is believed to have worked on several of her novels. Henry's home is now a stylish boutique hotel in the city's posh Marylebone area, aptly named Henry's Townhouse.
Cover image: Even Agatha Christie's house can be rented
Source: Facebook/Greenway House, home of Agatha Christie, National Trust
