Venice: Tales of the City - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034911899X ISBN 13: 9780349118994

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2005

Synopsis

Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international and native—Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro, Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele D'Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope, and Elio Zorzi.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many–layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them, in pieces that span the founding of the city to the present day. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international and native: we meet, along with others, Pietro Aretino, Max Beerbohm, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Ezra Pound, George Sand, Antonio Sforza, James Whistler, and Elio Zorzi. Variously Merchant City, Haunted City, City of Art, City of Love, and City of the Soul... Venice is portrayed here in all her moods and manifestations. Michelle Lovric is the author of the Venetian novels Carnevale and The Floating Book.

About the Author:

Michelle Lovric is the author of CARNEVALE. Born in Australia, she now lives in London and Venice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 034911899X
• ISBN 13: 9780349118994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Lovric Michelle