Rome Stories
$46.87
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2017
Summary
From Livy to Henry James, from Cellini to Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from across the ages. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology.
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, aspirat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841596228 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841596221 |
| Author: | Jonathan Keates |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 188mm x 123mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Jonathan Keates
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 in Peril Fund and for thirty-nine years taught English at the City of London School.
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