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EAN-13 | 9781582343822 |
Product Name | Prague Pictures: A Portrait Of The City (Writer And The City) |
Language | English |
Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
Short Description | Hardcover |
Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon ~ 1582343829 |
SKU | 2152568863 |
Price New | 5.48 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 3.56 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Width | 0.85 inches (convert) |
Height | 7.3 inches (convert) |
Length | 4.56 inches (convert) |
Weight | 9.44 ounces (convert) |
Author | John Banville |
Page Count | 120 |
Binding | Hardcover |
Published | 03/04/2004 |
Features | Used Book in Good Condition |
Long Description | The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series. From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries. Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art", who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradcany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, and even the depredations of the tourist boom after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful, proud, and melancholy city on the Vltava. John Banville traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it: the emperors and princes, geniuses and charlatans, heroes and scoundrels. He also paints a portrait of the Prague of today, reveling in its newfound freedoms, eager to join the European Community and at the same time suspicious of what many Praguers see as yet another totalitarian takeover. He writes of his first visit to the city, in the depths of the Cold War, and of subsequent trips there, of the people he met, the friends he made, the places he came to know. |
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