Venice Stories [Hardcover]

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers.

The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunting Don't Look Now, Anthony Trollope's wartime romance The Last Austrian Who Left Venice, Vernon Lee's spine-chilling A Wicked Voice, and a scene from The Wings of the Dove, Henry James's tale of passion and betrayal in a Gothic palazzo on the Grand Canal. The famed Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova weighs in with escapades from his notorious Memoirs, alongside enthralling selections by Baron Corvo, Marcel Proust, Camillo Boito, and Jeanette Winterson. In its multifaceted portrait of La Serenissima, Venice Stories showcases a lineup of literary classics worthy of the magnificent city they celebrate.Preface
 
Giacomo Casanova, from History of My Life
 
Anthony Trollope, The Last Austrian Who Left Venice
 
Camillo Boito, Senso
 
Vernon Lee, A Wicked Voice
 
Henry James, from The Wings of the Dove
 
Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo, from The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
 
Marcel Proust, Sojourn in Venice
 
Daphne du Maurier, Don’t Look Now
 
Jeanette Winterson, The Queen of Spades JONATHAN KEATES is the editor of the Everyman's Library's anthology Rome Stories and the author of several works of fiction including the short story collection Allegro Postillions and the novel Tl£B