Broschiertes Buch

Rome Tales

Beschreibung

In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors including Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, and Pier-Paolo Pasolini offer the delight of exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Essential reading for anyone who has been to Rome or dreams of going there.

Autor

Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. ; Hugh Shankland lived several years in Rome before founding and heading the Italian department at Durham University, England.

Produktdetails

• City Tales
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780199572465
• ISBN-10: 0199572461
• Artikelnr.: 33216623