In Ruins A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature

Name: In Ruins A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature
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ISBN: 9781400030866

ISBN-10: 1400030862

ISBN-13: 9781400030866

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Authors: Christopher Woodward

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In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruins casts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Christopher Woodward is director of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, England where he lives.