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Venice: A Traveller´s Reader
John Julius Norwich
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Description for Venice: A Traveller´s Reader
Paperback. An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Venice in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it . . .' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly . . . propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning and Horace Walpole, among many others. ... Read more
Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it . . .' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly . . . propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning and Horace Walpole, among many others. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472140302
SKU
V9781472140302
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About John Julius Norwich
John Julius, 2nd Viscount Norwich, was born on 15 September 1929, the son of the statesman and diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount) and the Lady Diana Cooper. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and on the lower deck of the Royal Navy before taking a degree in French and Russian ... Read more
Reviews for Venice: A Traveller´s Reader
Another excellent volume in the Traveller's Reader series.
Times A brilliant historical anthology . . . which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author's witty selection of writings.
Spectator
Times A brilliant historical anthology . . . which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author's witty selection of writings.
Spectator