Venice Stories

The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world''s storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier''s haunting "Don''t Look Now," Anthony Trollope''s wartime romance "The Last Austrian Who Left Venice," Vernon Lee''s spine-chilling "A Wicked Voice," and a scene from <i>The Wings of the Dove</i>, Henry James''s tale of passion and betrayal in a Gothic palazzo on the Grand Canal. The famed Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova weighs in with escapades from his notorious <i>Memoirs</i>, alongside enthralling selections by Baron Corvo, Marcel Proust, Camillo Boito, and Jeanette Winterson. In its multifaceted portrait of La Serenissima, <i>Venice Stories</i> showcases a lineup of literary classics worthy of the magnificent city they celebrate.