Vernon Lee

Ariadne in Mantua (eBook, ePUB)

A Romance in Five Acts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 'Ariadne in Mantua' by Vernon Lee, the reader is transported to Renaissance Italy through Lee's vivid and detailed descriptions of the city of Mantua. The book is a combination of historical fiction and travelogue, as Lee paints a picture of life in this thriving cultural center. Lee's writing style is both lyrical and informative, with a focus on capturing the essence of the time period. The book is a fascinating exploration of art, politics, and societal norms of the era, making it a valuable read for those interested in the Renaissance period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Good Press
• Seitenzahl: 133
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4064066188580
• Artikelnr.: 58596424

Autorenporträt

Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856 - 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music and travel. The English writer and translator Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction." E. F. Bleiler has claimed that "Lee's stories are really in a category by themselves. Intelligent, amusingly ironic, imaginative, original, they deserve more than the passing attention that they have attracted". Neil Barron described the contents of Lee's collection Hauntings thus "The stories are powerful and very striking, among the finest of their kind."