Venice Stories - - Hardback Bog - Everyman - 2018 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: Everyman
Description
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.
