Eleanor Clark

Rome and a Villa (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water. The New Yorker

Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city. New York Times

Bringing to life the legendary city's beauty and magic in all its many facets, Eleanor Clark's masterful collection of vignettes, Rome and a Villa, has transported readers for generations.

In 1947 a young American woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But instead of a novel, Clark created a series of sketches of Roman life written mostly between 1948 and 1951. Wandering the streets of this legendary city, Eleanor fell under Rome's spellits pace of life, the wry outlook of its men and women, its magnificent history and breathtaking contribution to world culture. Rome is life itselfa sensuous, hectic, chaotic, and utterly fascinating blend of the comic and the tragic. Clark highlights Roman art and architecture, including Hadrian's Villaan enormous, unfinished palaceas a prism to view the city and its history, and offers a lovely portrait of the Cimitero acattolicolong known as the Protestant cemeterywhere Keats, Shelley, and other foreign notables rest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062331144
• Artikelnr.: 40004166

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913February 16, 1996) was born in Los Angeles and attended Vassar College in the 1930s. She was the author of the National Book Award winner The Oysters of Locmariaquer, Rome and a Villa, Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out. She was married to Robert Penn Warren.