{"product_id":"2026200012873-secondhand-for-want-of-the-golden-city","title":"For Want Of The Golden City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life spent in pursuit of beauty across continents, centuries, and art forms finds its most eloquent expression in For Want of the Golden City, a sweeping autobiographical meditation by one of England's most celebrated polymaths. Sacheverell Sitwell — poet, art critic, and indefatigable traveller — chronicles a lifetime of aesthetic pilgrimage, weaving together memories, reflections, and observations drawn from his extraordinary encounters with art, architecture, music, and the natural world. The golden city of the title is at once a real destination longed for and a metaphor for the ideal of beauty that drove Sitwell's singular intellectual journey across the breadth of Western culture.\n\nSitwell's prose is richly ornate and deeply personal, carrying the hallmarks of the Sitwellian tradition — that rare fusion of connoisseurship, lyricism, and aristocratic sensibility that defined an entire era of English letters. Published by the distinguished Thames and Hudson in London, the work stands as both a cultural memoir and a testament to a vanishing world of high aestheticism, positioning it alongside the great reflective essays of the twentieth century. For those who have yet to discover whether Sitwell ever found his golden city, the answer lies somewhere within these luminous, searching pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203280806107,"sku":"2026200012873-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5db532c8-df16-47a8-99bf-cfd0c4405470.png?v=1788147441","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012873-secondhand-for-want-of-the-golden-city","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}