{"product_id":"rome-and-a-villa","title":"Rome and a Villa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city.\" -- New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBringing to life the legendary city's beauty and magic in all its many facets, Eleanor Clark's masterful collection of vignettes, Rome and a Villa, has transported readers for generations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1947 a young American woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But instead of a novel, Clark created a series of sketches of Roman life written mostly between 1948 and 1951. Wandering the streets of this legendary city, Eleanor fell under Rome's spell--its pace of life, the wry outlook of its men and women, its magnificent history and breathtaking contribution to world culture. Rome is life itself--a sensuous, hectic, chaotic, and utterly fascinating blend of the comic and the tragic. Clark highlights Roman art and architecture, including Hadrian's Villa--an enormous, unfinished palace--as a prism to view the city and its history, and offers a lovely portrait of the Cimitero acattolico--long known as the Protestant cemetery--where Keats, Shelley, and other foreign notables rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleanor Clark's timeless portrait of Rome reveals: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Classic Literary Travelogue: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover the city through the eyes of a young American writer on a Guggenheim fellowship, as Eleanor Clark captures the spell of post-war Rome in a series of masterful vignettes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eArt and Architecture as a Prism: \u003c\/b\u003e Go beyond the guidebooks with a deep, personal exploration of the city's treasures, using Hadrian's Villa as a unique prism to understand Rome's magnificent history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVivid Sketches of Roman Life: \u003c\/b\u003e Immerse yourself in the sensuous and fascinating pace of life in the Eternal City, where the comic and the tragic blend on every chaotic street corner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKeats and Shelley in Rome: \u003c\/b\u003e Visit the Cimitero acattolico, the Protestant cemetery, in a lovely and moving portrait of the final resting place of Keats, Shelley, and other foreign notables.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833313013965,"sku":"9780062363404","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_0fef95f2-1212-41e1-a329-aef8d933abe3.jpg?v=1790817824","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/rome-and-a-villa","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}