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Playing With Love (Liebelei)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, P. Morton Shand
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R792
Discovery Miles 7 920
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The best of Pushkin Press on Venice, the iconic city. Beautifully
designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats and exclusive to Pushkin
Press, this box set contains the Venice literature must-reads: the
contrasting voices of Paul Morand, Regis Debray, Henry James,
Arthur Schnitzler and Petr Kral on the city which leaves no-one
indifferent. Contains: Venices by Paul Morand, Loving Venice, by
Petr Kral, Against Venice by Regis Debray, Letters from the Palazzo
Barbaro by Henry James, Casanova's Return to Venice by Arthur
Schnitzler. EXCLUSIVE TO THIS BOXSET: The first ever translation
from Antal Szerb's The Third Tower, the travelogue which gave birth
to Journey by Moonlight. Szerb's notes on Venice are translated by
award-winning Len Rix. 'I cannot imagine a happier Christmas
present for any lover, or loather, of Venice' - Jan Morris 'All
lovers of Venice who also love good writing should have the Pushkin
Press's In Search of Venice, a handsome boxed set of six books on
the city, including Henry James's Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro,
a delightful pamphlet by Antal Szerb, as well as Regis Debray's
contrarian Against Venice' -John Banville, Wall Street Journal
Casanova was in his fifty-third year. Though no longer driven by
the lust of adventure that had spurred him in his youth, he was
still hunted athwart the world, hunted now by a restlessness due to
the approach of old age. His yearning for Venice, the city of his
birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling
downwards in its death flight, he began to move in ever-narrowing
circles. Again and again, during the last ten years of his exile,
he had implored the Supreme Council for leave to return home.
Erstwhile, in the drafting of these petitions - a work in which he
was a past master - a defiant, wilful spirit seemed to have guided
his pen; at times even he appeared to take a grim delight in his
forwardness. But of late his requests had been couched in humble,
beseeching words which displayed, ever more plainly, the ache of
homesickness and genuine repentance.
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