Les mémoires de Casanova ne sont pas seulement, comme on le croit trop souvent, le catalogue de ses conquêtes, fussent-elles évoquées avec verve. Leur auteur, certes, est un aventurier, mais c'est également un homme cultivé et brillant qui parle latin et a...
Paperback: 64 pages
Age Range: 6 - 11 years
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781846161841
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at... A great retelling of this tragic tale of jealousy and human frailty. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, and Jealousy in Othello. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross's engaging...
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city.
The Venetians language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the...
Paperback
296 pages
Vintage Books
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9780307390301
In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair.
In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a...
It is 1498, and the whole of Venice is abuzz. Hidden somewhere in the labyrinthine city is an ancient book, rumoured to contain thorny heresies and secrets of immeasurable power. Luciano, an orphan, is taken on as apprentice to the chef at the doge's palace. He finds himself entangled in the search...
Ange Mlinko alchemizes art and life into a dazzling collection of poetry in Venice
In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet, scratched with Greek script, in the waxen wings...
Dans les brumes de décembre, les cloches de San Zanipolo chassent les âmes en peine. A l'aube du carnaval, la cité des Doges s'éveille sur des cris : tordu dans une affreuse posture, une salive noirâtre aux commissures des lèvres, le corps dans vie d'un...
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
“Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova—and reading...
Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help—her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the Four Hundred...
The Merchant of Venice tells of a Venetian merchant called Antonio who defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender. The man, Shylock, then takes the opportunity to hit back at the racism and general discrimination that he has encountered by demanding a pound of flesh from...
