Rome Stories Format: Hardback-image

Rome Stories Format: Hardback

$ 7.71

Genre: Fiction Format: Hardcover gtin13: 9781101907887 Publication Year: 2017 Number of Pages: 416 Pages Book Title: Rome Stories Item Weight: 15.4 Oz Author: Jonathan Keates Item Width: 4.8 in Language: English Intended Audience: General/trade Item Length: 7.4 in Narrative Type: book Type: book Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Book Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser. ISBN: 9781101907887 Topic: Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Literary Item Height: 1.2 in

Description

From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS.

During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation, and the spiritual core of a world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, it has long served as a realm of fantasy, aspiration, and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, Renaissance sculptors, Enlightenment poets and philosophers, American, British, and French novelists, and the writers of modern Italy.

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