![Venice: Pure City](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/536/863/1459863536.0.m.jpg)
Venice: Pure City
by Peter Ackroyd
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701172851
- ISBN 13
- 9780701172855
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
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 Murano; 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 novelistic one, both beautiful and rapturous. We could have no better guide—reading Venice: Pure City is, in itself, a glorious journey to the ultimate city.
Synopsis
PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography . He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D-609
- Title
- Venice: Pure City
- Author
- Peter Ackroyd
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701172851
- ISBN 13
- 9780701172855
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009-10-13
Terms of Sale
Book Nook
Full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Book Nook
Biblio member since 2021
Washington, District of Columbia
About Book Nook
Seller of rare books who prioritizes customer service by being responsive and packaging and shipping books with care.