Rome Stories [Hardcover]

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 Storiesexplores 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.Preface
 
LIVY, The Revolt Against the Tarquins  
 
PLUTARCH, The Murder of Julius Caesar
 
BENVENUTO CELLINI, Imprisonment, Escape, Recapture  
 
EDWARD GIBBON, The Story of Rienzi  
 
J. W. VON GOETHE, fromItalian Journey
 
STENDHAL, Vanina Vanini  
 
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, fromThe Marble Faun
 
GEORGE ELIOT, fromMiddlemarch 
 
HENRY JAMES, Daisy Miller  
 
EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever  
 
ALBERTO MORAVIA, fromRoman Tales
 
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, A Night on the Tram JONATHAN KEATESis the author of several works of fiction including the short story collectionAllegro Postillions and the novelThe Stranger's Gallery. He is the biographer of Handel, Purcell, and Stendhal, and is well known as a reviewer and writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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