
"These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water." -- The New Yorker "Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city."...

This new edition of Clark's acclaimed tribute to Rome includes an Introduction by William Weaver, the preeminent translator who often wandered the city with Clark during the years she was writing the sketches for this literary biography. Illustrations throughout.



This new edition of Clark's acclaimed tribute to Rome includes an Introduction by William Weaver, the preeminent translator who often wandered the city with Clark during the years she was writing the sketches for this literary biography. Illustrations throughout.

In 1947 a young american woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But Rome had its way with her, the novel was abandoned, and what followed was not a novel but a series of sketches of Roman life, most written between 1948 and 1951. This...

This new edition of Clark's acclaimed tribute to Rome includes an Introduction by William Weaver, the preeminent translator who often wandered the city with Clark during the years she was writing the sketches for this literary biography. Illustrations throughout.
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