Rome Stories

Jonathan Keates, Christina Usher

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Everyman's Library
15 March 2017

Literary essays; Anthologies (non-poetry); Short stories

Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

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, 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 sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French

novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the

city's ageless paradoxes. Gibbon

admires the Last of the Tribunes, Goethe decodes the mysteries of the

Carnival and Stendhal's subversive aristocrats mingle revolution with a

little cross-dressing amid their gilt mirrors and frescoed ceilings From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Hawthorne

to Wharton, the city of Caesars and popes, of dreamers, chancers and hustlers

confronts the questing imagination with its eternally unflinching gaze.

Edited by: Jonathan Keates, Christina Usher
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 123mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781841596228
ISBN 10: 1841596221
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 15 March 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 in Peril Fund and for thirty-nine years taught English at the City of London School.

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