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Rome Stories
Jonathan (Ed Keates
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Description for Rome Stories
Hardcover. Explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless paradoxes. Editor(s): Keates, Jonathan. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 125 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of fantasy, aspiration and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its fatal gift of beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance ... Read more
During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of fantasy, aspiration and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its fatal gift of beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841596228
SKU
V9781841596228
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About Jonathan (Ed Keates
EDITOR BIOGRAPHY Jonathan Keates has written extensively about Italy. He has also published acclaimed biographies of Handel, Purcell and Stendhal, and his fiction includes the short story collection Allegro Postillions (winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize) and the novel The Strangers' Gallery set in 19th-century Italy. He is Chairman of the Venice ... Read more
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