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Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 2011)

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Author: Peter Ackroyd. Title: Venice. Format: Paperback. Release Year: 2011. Item Weight: 567g. Item Width: 23mm. Item Length: 109mm. Item Height: 218mm.

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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 land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its readers to that sensual and surprising city. His account embraces facts and romance, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges, and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the festivals and the flowers. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and its trading empire, the wars against Napoleon, and the tourist invasions of today. Everything is here: the merchants on the Rialto and the Jews in the ghetto; the glassblowers of Mura; the carnival masks and the sad colonies of lepers; the artists Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo. And the ever-present undertone of Venice s shadowy corners and dead ends, of prisons and punishment, wars and sieges, scandals and seductions. Ackroyd s Venice: Pure City is a study of Venice much in the vein of his lauded London: The Biography. Like London, Venice is a fluid, writerly exploration organized around a number of themes. History and context are provided in each chapter, but Ackroyd s portrait of Venice is a particularly velistic one, both beautiful and rapturous. We could have better guide reading Venice: Pure City is, in itself, a glorious journey to the ultimate city. From the Hardcover edition.

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Anchor Books
ISBN-10
0307473791
ISBN-13
9780307473790
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Peter Ackroyd
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Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback
Language
English
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Regional History
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Textbook

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Black & White Illustrations, Colour Illustrations, Maps
Author Biography
PETER ACKROYD is the author of Thames; London: The Biography; Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination; Shakespeare; acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More; several successful novels; and the series Ackroyd s Brief Lives. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Award for Literature. From the Hardcover edition.
Date of Publication
25/10/2011
Country of Publication
United States

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