Книга: Rome Stories (Livy; Plutarch; Gibbon Edward); Everyman, 2017

During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of fantasy, aspiration and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its fatal gift of beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless paradoxes. Gibbon admires the Last of the Tribunes, Goethe decodes the mysteries of the Carnival and Stendhal's subversive aristocrats mingle revolution with a little cross-dressing amid their gilt mirrors and frescoed ceilings From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Hawthorne to Wharton, the city of Caesars and popes, of dreamers, chancers and hustlers confronts the questing imagination with its eternally unflinching gaze.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-1-84159-622-8
Автор(ы)	Livy; Plutarch; Gibbon Edward
Вес	0.45
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2017
Год публикации	2017
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Everyman
Издательство	Everyman
Кол-во страниц	400
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	406
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Переплет	Твёрдый
Переплёт	Твёрдый
Серия	Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Тип обложки	твердая
Формат	125x190
Язык издания	Английский
Язык	Английский