Venice Stories

Hardback

Main Details

Title Venice Stories
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jonathan Keates
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 188,Width 125
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781841596259
ClassificationsDewey:808.89324531
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 27 September 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 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.

Author Biography

Jonathan Keates is a prizewinning biographer and novelist, well known as a reviewer and as a writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.