My Venice and other essays
By: Donna Leon
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781410467232
Subjects: Large type books; Homes and haunts; Americans; Biography
Description: For many years Donna Leon, acclaimed for her bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti, has written essays for European publications. Collected here are over fifty of her best: funny, charming, passionate, and insightful essays in which she shares episodes from her life in Venice, her love of opera, tales from in and around her country house in the mountains, and offers observations on the idea of the Italian man.
Table of contents: title: On Venice; title: On music; title: On mankind and animals; title: On men; title: On America; title: On books.