{"product_id":"2026100007646-secondhand-the-country-of-the-ring-the-book","title":"The Country Of \"The Ring \u0026 The Book\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning likely with age. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding: intact; slight lean to book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the footsteps of one of the greatest narrative poems in the English language, Sir Frederick Treves — the celebrated surgeon and travel writer — charts a vivid journey through the Italian landscapes that inspired Robert Browning's monumental The Ring and the Book. Published in 1913, this compelling work traces the real geography, people, and history that underpinned Browning's 1868–69 masterpiece, grounding the poem's dramatic murder trial and moral labyrinth in the streets of Florence and Rome with the authority of a keen-eyed traveller and scholar.\n\nTreves brings to bear his characteristic combination of medical precision and literary sensitivity, illuminating how place shapes narrative and how history bleeds into art. The book stands as a rare cultural document — part travelogue, part literary pilgrimage — that reveals the Italy Browning so passionately inhabited and reimagined. For lovers of Victorian poetry and the landscapes of the Grand Tour, this volume raises a tantalising question: once you have walked the country of The Ring and the Book, can you ever read the poem the same way again?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130584211675,"sku":"2026100007646-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/46480349-653e-4c71-b582-9c38e9b5096c.png?v=1786586747","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007646-secondhand-the-country-of-the-ring-the-book","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}