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The third tower : journeys in Italy /

By: Szerb, Antal, 1901-1945.
Contributor(s): Rix, Len [translator.].
Publisher: London : Pushkin Press, 2014Description: 107 pages : ill. ; 17 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1782270531; 9781782270539.Subject(s): Italy -- Description and travel | Italy -- Social life and customs -- 1914-1945DDC classification: 808.8032
Contents:
Translator's introduction -- To be in Venice -- In praise of Venice -- The back alleys -- Pensione -- Ungheria -- The secret of St Mark's -- San Zanipolo -- A thought -- Evening in the piazza -- Signoras and signorinas --Ca'Rezzonico -- Vicenza -- Verona -- The confession of a bourgeois -- Heat -- Vittoriale -- House and cypress tree -- Solitude -- The people's train -- Bologna -- Ravenna -- Byzantium -- The tomb of Dietrich von Bern -- San Marino -- The third tower -- Ferrara -- Trieste, or, in a word, exhaustion -- List of illustrations.
Summary: First published in Hungarian as : A harmadik torony, Budapest, 1936.Summary: 'The Third Tower' is a precious collection of Szerb's lyrical, intelligent and typically ironic travel notes, made during journeys through Italy.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 808.8032 SZE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0092008
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Translator's introduction -- To be in Venice -- In praise of Venice -- The back alleys -- Pensione -- Ungheria -- The secret of St Mark's -- San Zanipolo -- A thought -- Evening in the piazza -- Signoras and signorinas --Ca'Rezzonico -- Vicenza -- Verona -- The confession of a bourgeois -- Heat -- Vittoriale -- House and cypress tree -- Solitude -- The people's train -- Bologna -- Ravenna -- Byzantium -- The tomb of Dietrich von Bern -- San Marino -- The third tower -- Ferrara -- Trieste, or, in a word, exhaustion -- List of illustrations.

First published in Hungarian as : A harmadik torony, Budapest, 1936.

'The Third Tower' is a precious collection of Szerb's lyrical, intelligent and typically ironic travel notes, made during journeys through Italy.

Translated from the Hungarian.

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