In Ruins

A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, World History
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Author: Christopher Woodward ISBN: 9780307531988
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: May 12, 2010
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Christopher Woodward
ISBN: 9780307531988
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: May 12, 2010
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruinscasts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination.

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In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruinscasts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination.

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