The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunting "Don't Look Now," Anthony Trollope's wartime romance "The Last Austrian Who Left Venice," Vernon Lee's spine-chilling "A Wicked Voice," and a scene from The Wings of the Dove, Henry James's tale of passion and betrayal in a Gothic palazzo on the Grand Canal. The famed Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova weighs in with escapades from his notorious Memoirs, alongside enthralling selections by Baron Corvo, Marcel Proust, Camillo Boito, and Jeanette Winterson. In its multifaceted portrait of La Serenissima, Venice Stories showcases a lineup of literary classics worthy of the magnificent city they celebrate.
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A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers.

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ISBN
9781841596259
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Everyman; Everyman's Library
Vekt
439 gr
Høyde
188 mm
Bredde
121 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
400

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Jonathan Keates is a prizewinning biographer and novelist, well known as a reviewer and as a writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.