| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage departures
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| Note |
"A Vintage departures original"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Cassino, once thriving, is turned into a scene of unrelieved grimness / Homer Bigart -- from Profane friendship / Harold Brodkey -- December in Florence / Joseph Brodsky -- Letter to Mrs. Ogilvy / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Up at a villa, down in the city / Robert Browning -- On Rome ; To the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird / George Gordon, Lord Bryon -- from The uncle from Rome / Joseph Caldwell -- Poems from Italy / John Ciardi -- Fountains / Eleanor Clark -- from Women of the shadows / Ann Cornelisen -- Genoa and its neighbourhood / Charles Dickens -- Erice / Lawrence Durrell -- Journals from Italy / George Eliot -- In Santa Croce with no Baedeker / E. M. Forster -- from The islands of Italy / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -- from A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway -- from A bell for Adano / John Hersey -- The art of arrangement / Paul Hofmann -- from The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- To Sorgono / D.H. Lawrence -- Vespucci Territory : 1987 / R.W.B. Lewis -- The maid's shoes / Bernard Malamud -- The loot ; Venice preserved / Mary McCarthy -- Venice ; In a bye-canal ; In a church of Padua / Herman Melville -- On Italian time / Mary Morris -- from Summer's lease / John Mortimer -- The queen of the bogs / William Murray -- from The English patient / Michael Ondaatje -- Residenza / Tim Parks -- from The stones of Venice / John Ruskin -- Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from On Persephone's Island / Mary Taylor Simeti -- For women / Kate Simon -- from the Volcano lover / Susan Sontag -- San Sano / Matthew Spender -- Defying Mrs. Tweedie / Calvin Trillin -- The buried city of Pompeii / Mark Twain -- The city today / Gore Vidal -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- A baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra / Richard Wilbur -- Roma I / Charles Wright. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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Italy -- Literary collections.
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English literature -- 20th century.
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American literature -- 19th century.
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English literature -- 19th century.
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Italy.
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| Added Author |
Powers, Alice Leccese.
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| ISBN |
0679770232 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780679770237 paperback alkaline paper |
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