Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1957. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> In this fascinating and informative travel book Stendhal author of The Red and the Black and The Charter-house of Parma invites the reader to join him and a small group of young people on a tour of Rome. Here trans-lated into English for the first time A Roman Journal remains the most original and most diverting of all guides to the Eternal City. Described with wit charm sensitivity and a great deal of tenderness by master story-teller. fabulous Rome with its magnificent landmarks comes miraculously alive. The reader visits the Colosseum the Pantheon St. Peter’s the Forum the fountains and the ruins; he watches the pageantry that was once so much a part of life in this great city. (MP)