{"product_id":"rome-stories-jonathan-keates-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Keates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1101907886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101907887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.30h x 4.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Jonathan Keates","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043577295103,"sku":"9781101907887","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03fc4a87-a5e7-4000-8e45-01408d8db6a7.jpg?v=1684967961","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rome-stories-jonathan-keates-9781101907887","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}