A Time In Rome
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Rome has seduced writers, artists, and wanderers for millennia, and Elizabeth Bowen surrenders to its spell with characteristic elegance and wit in A Time in Rome. Part travel memoir, part cultural meditation, this luminous work chronicles Bowen's extended sojourn in the Eternal City, guiding the reader through its layered streets, ancient ruins, and baroque piazzas with the eye of a novelist and the mind of a historian. She does not merely sightsee — she inhabits Rome, piecing together the city's millennia of accumulated meaning through personal encounter, classical scholarship, and a keen sensitivity to atmosphere and place. Bowen's prose, renowned for its precision and sensory richness, here achieves a particular radiance, presenting Rome not as a museum piece but as a living, breathing palimpsest of human civilization. Her meditations range from the grandeur of the Roman Forum to the intimate rhythms of daily Roman life, arguing implicitly that to truly know a city is to submit to its own sense of time. A writer of extraordinary perception, Bowen illuminates what so many visitors miss — the uncanny persistence of the ancient beneath the modern — leaving the reader with an irresistible desire to walk those storied streets themselves.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Hardback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Rome has seduced writers, artists, and wanderers for millennia, and Elizabeth Bowen surrenders to its spell with characteristic elegance and wit in A Time in Rome. Part travel memoir, part cultural meditation, this luminous work chronicles Bowen's extended sojourn in the Eternal City, guiding the reader through its layered streets, ancient ruins, and baroque piazzas with the eye of a novelist and the mind of a historian. She does not merely sightsee — she inhabits Rome, piecing together the city's millennia of accumulated meaning through personal encounter, classical scholarship, and a keen sensitivity to atmosphere and place. Bowen's prose, renowned for its precision and sensory richness, here achieves a particular radiance, presenting Rome not as a museum piece but as a living, breathing palimpsest of human civilization. Her meditations range from the grandeur of the Roman Forum to the intimate rhythms of daily Roman life, arguing implicitly that to truly know a city is to submit to its own sense of time. A writer of extraordinary perception, Bowen illuminates what so many visitors miss — the uncanny persistence of the ancient beneath the modern — leaving the reader with an irresistible desire to walk those storied streets themselves.