{"product_id":"9781101907887","title":"Rome Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation, and the spiritual core of a world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, it has long served as a realm of fantasy, aspiration, and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. \u003ci\u003eRome Stories\u003c\/i\u003e explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, Renaissance sculptors, Enlightenment poets and philosophers, American, British, and French novelists, and the writers of modern Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030415917296,"sku":"9781101907887","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101907887_p0.jpg?v=1763690052","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101907887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}