Venice Stories [Hardcover]

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers.

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 fromThe 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 notoriousMemoirs, alongside enthralling selections by Baron Corvo, Marcel Proust, Camillo Boito, and Jeanette Winterson. In its multifaceted portrait of La Serenissima,Venice Storiesshowcases a lineup of literary classics worthy of the magnificent city they celebrate.Preface
 
Giacomo Casanova, fromHistory of My Life
 
Anthony Trollope, The Last Austrian Who Left Venice
 
Camillo Boito, Senso
 
Vernon Lee, A Wicked Voice
 
Henry James, fromThe Wings of the Dove
 
Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo, fromThe Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
 
Marcel Proust, Sojourn in Venice
 
Daphne du Maurier, Don’t Look Now
 
Jeanette Winterson, The Queen of Spades JONATHAN KEATES is the editor of the Everyman's Library's anthologyRome Storiesand the author of several works of fiction including the short story collectionAllegro Postillionsand 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.PREFACE
by Jonathan Keates

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