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Author : Jonathan Keates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841596259
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Venice Stories written by Jonathan Keates and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Elisabetta Baldisserotto
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 : 191269753X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Book of Venice written by Elisabetta Baldisserotto and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
Author : Kim Cool
Publisher : Historic Venice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780972165501
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Ghost Stories of Venice written by Kim Cool and published by Historic Venice Press. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories of the Venice, Fl, region with enough history to set the story. Venice was a John Nolen planned community dating to 1925-26. The "Ghosts" represent the years since then and include the days when the Ringling Bros. Circus wintered in Venice. Each story was related by the person who witnessed the ghost or was told about the ghosts.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667602918
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories written by Thomas Mann and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann: Death in Venice Tonio Kröger Mario and the Magician Disorder and Early Sorrow A Man and his Dog The Blood of the Walsungs Tristan Felix Krull
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : urzeni yayınevi
ISBN 13 : 6057941705
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by urzeni yayınevi. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099541564
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Death in Venice and Other Stories written by Thomas Mann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustav von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.
Author : Alberto Toso Fei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Venetian Legends and Ghost Stories written by Alberto Toso Fei and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toni Sepeda
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199844
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Brunetti's Venice written by Toni Sepeda and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal). Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye, fascination with history, ear for language, passion for food, and familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.
Author : Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536184
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Venice written by Joanne M. Ferraro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sweeping historical portrait of the floating city of Venice from its foundations to the present day. Joanne M. Ferraro considers Venice's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the Asian, European and North African exchange networks that made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural centre. Incorporating recent scholarly insights, the author discusses key themes related to the city's social, cultural, religious and environmental history, as well as its politics and economy. A refuge and a pilgrim stop; an international emporium and centre of manufacture; a mecca of spectacle, theatre, music, gambling and sexual experimentation; and an artistic and architectural marvel, Venice's allure springs eternal in every phase of the city's fascinating history.
Author : Randolph W.B. Becker
Publisher : The New Atlantian Library
ISBN 13 : 1492329398
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Venice Stories written by Randolph W.B. Becker and published by The New Atlantian Library. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magnificent writing, with great depth of insight into the human mind and character." - Robert J. Green, author of The Fantasy Passport. "The stories are pungently written and have the advantage of twisty endings one does not expect. Some are funny, some dark, but all well told and about one of the great cities of the world." - Lynn-Marie Smith These mesmerizing short stories offer a dozen glimpses into the experience of Venice, its people and its surprises, written during the author's sabbatical stay in Cannaregio. Here are a dozen masterful vignettes that will take you to that city in northeastern Italy, situated on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges ... and dreams.
Author : Kathleen A. González
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788868690625
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Woman in Venice (A) written by Kathleen A. González and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Keates
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1101908068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Venice Stories written by Jonathan Keates and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553905759
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Death in Venice and Other Stories written by Thomas Mann and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated author, Gustave Aschenbach, burdened by his successes, comes to Venice for a holiday and encounters a vision of eros -- a vision for which he pays with his life. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's intensely moving elegy for a man trapped between myth and modernity, was written at the peak of his powers.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, the sea-stories written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Stones of Venice written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin, one of the most influential art critics of the 19th century, wrote more than half a million words on Venice. This is an abridged version of his opus, which still contains the essence of his original work, for those who would appreciate Venice, architecture and Ruskin's fine writing.
Author : Judith Mackrell
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773963
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice: The Stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim written by Judith Mackrell and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Venice’s “Unfinished Palazzo”— told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate, and fascinating residents: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned midconstruction and the project was abandoned. Empty, unfinished, and decaying, the building was considered an eyesore until the early twentieth century when it attracted and inspired three women at key moments in their lives: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim. Luisa Casati turned her home into an aesthete’s fantasy where she hosted parties as extravagant and decadent as Renaissance court operas, spending small fortunes on her own costumes in her quest to become a “living work of art” and muse. Doris Castlerosse strove to make her mark in London and Venice during the glamorous, hedonistic interwar years, hosting film stars and royalty at glittering parties. In the postwar years, Peggy Gugenheim turned the Palazzo into a model of modernist simplicity that served as a home for her exquisite collection of modern art that today draws tourists and art lovers from around the world. Each vivid life story is accompanied by previously unseen materials from family archives, weaving an intricate history of these legendary art world eccentrics.
Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472107748
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Venice written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, as one of the principal Renaissance capitals. Now, as the resident population falls and the number of tourists grows, as brash new advertisements disfigure the ancient buildings, she looks at the threat from the rising water level and the future of one of the great wonders of the world.
