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The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
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Take a Roman holiday with some of the world's greatest writers
Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelo's Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share Alice Steinbach's midnight epiphany on a shabby hotel balcony. Learn the art of love from Ovid. Visit villas and gardens with Edith Wharton. Enjoy Rome's myriad moods and pleasures with Robert Browning, Eleanor Clark, Susan Vreeland, and many others. An irresistible collection of writing about one of the world's most beloved destinations, The Smiles of Rome spans the centuries from ancient times to the present day. Each essay resonates with the richness and turmoil of the past and overflows with a great wealth of fascinating facts and intriguing tidbits for today's avid readers and travelers. "Rome," writes Susan Cahill, "has the power to blow your mind and heart." This delicious, many-layered collection honoring the city that is the heart and soul of European civilization has the same power to thrill.
Author: Susan Cahill
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780345434203
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 106
Booklist 02/01/2005 pg. 931
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 143
Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelo's Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share Alice Steinbach's midnight epiphany on a shabby hotel balcony. Learn the art of love from Ovid. Visit villas and gardens with Edith Wharton. Enjoy Rome's myriad moods and pleasures with Robert Browning, Eleanor Clark, Susan Vreeland, and many others. An irresistible collection of writing about one of the world's most beloved destinations, The Smiles of Rome spans the centuries from ancient times to the present day. Each essay resonates with the richness and turmoil of the past and overflows with a great wealth of fascinating facts and intriguing tidbits for today's avid readers and travelers. "Rome," writes Susan Cahill, "has the power to blow your mind and heart." This delicious, many-layered collection honoring the city that is the heart and soul of European civilization has the same power to thrill.
Author: Susan Cahill
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780345434203
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 106
Booklist 02/01/2005 pg. 931
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 143
About the Author
Susan Cahill, PhD, is the editor of many highly praised anthologies, including Desiring Italy, For the Love of Ireland, Wise Women, The QPB Anthology of Writing by Women, and Women and Fiction. Author of the novel Earth Angels and co-author with Thomas Cahill of A Literary Guide to Irleand, she has taught at Queens College and Fordham University. She lives in New York City and, for part of the year, Rome.
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