A Time in Rome
$41.43
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2003
Summary
Elizabeth Bowen’s account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities and speculates about the immense noise of ancient Rome, the problems caused by the Romans’ dining posture, and the Roman temperament. She evokes the city’s moods - by day, when it is characterised by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099284956 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099284952 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Bowen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 396g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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A still ludicrously underrated genius of 20th-century British-Irish writing
A still ludicrously underrated genius of 20th-century British-Irish writing – Simon SchamaOne of the last century’s greatest woman writers * Guardian *Her writings convey the flavour of literary London in the Thirties and Forties * Observer *A matchless writer * Independent *
About The Author
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen’s Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
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