ROME
ANDA
VILLA
ByELEANOR
CLARK
SINCE small portions of this book
first appeared in
Partisan Review
it
has emerged as a literary master–
piece. Read what America's fore–
most critics say about it:
_ "With a true sense and love of
the grand, the tragic, the beautiful
· .. she views Rome from the sixth
century, the thirteenth, the eight–
eenth, and day before yesterday ..•
An exhilarating flood of life; every–
body is alive. whether they lived two
thousand years ago. or live now."
- KATHERINE ANNE PORTER,
N. Y. Times Book Review
_ "Original and extraordinary
evocation of a city ... an odd. ap–
pealing marriage of earthiness and
surrealism."-LEwIS GANNETT.
N.Y.
Herald Tribune
_ "By some strange magic. this is
Rome itself, wide. broad, and a good
20 centuries deep." - w. G. ROGERS,
A ssociated Press
_ "Distinguished and enthralling
· .. Miss Clark does more than any
writer in English in my memory (ex–
cept possibly Lawrence) to reveal
the quintessence of the Italian spirit
· . . The handsome presentation of
this book is integral to its charm ...
The Eugene Berman drawings are
evocative and right."
- FRANCES KEENE,
The Nation
_ "An original and beautiful
book."-ROBERT PENN WARREN
Travel notes through time and history, with many illustrations by Eugtnt
Berman. Selected by
'W.
'J-l.Auden, Donel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun
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