{"product_id":"rome-stories-9781101907887","title":"Rome Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation, and the spiritual core of a world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, it has long served as a realm of fantasy, aspiration, and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. \u003ci\u003eRome Stories\u003c\/i\u003e explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, Renaissance sculptors, Enlightenment poets and philosophers, American, British, and French novelists, and the writers of modern Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJONATHAN KEATES\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several works of fiction including the short story collection \u003ci\u003eAllegro Postillion\u003c\/i\u003es and the novel\u003ci\u003e The Stranger's Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the biographer of Handel, Purcell, and Stendhal, and is well known as a reviewer and writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332307587346,"sku":"9781101907887","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9c86175-3a26-4e36-8f90-da947b6737e0.jpg?v=1727833759","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rome-stories-9781101907887","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}