The World of Venice

Jan Morris

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 - Travel - 315 pages

"The World of Venice" is a classic book that offers an incomparable take on an incomparable city. Jan Morris's new foreword brings readers up to date on 1990s Venice, a city "jam-packed with its admirers, jangling its profits, flaunting its theatrical splendors, enlivened once more by that old Venetian aphrodisiac - success." Incorporating the best aspects of travel writing and popular history, Morris transcends both genres by creating a composite portrait of Venice, artfully blending the fabled city's rich past with its current reality. Writing with singular zest and perceptiveness, Morris explores each of the city's aspects in all of its seasons, evoking the character of this unique locale through its arts, its food, and the personality of its people.

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Review: The World of Venice: Revised Edition

User Review  - Carol Smith - Goodreads

The husband and I visited both Trieste and Venice earlier this year (before then setting off for two weeks of fine walking in Slovenia). I read J. Morris' Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere while in ...

Review: The World of Venice: Revised Edition

User Review  - Ginger Williams - Goodreads

Jan Morris writes beautifully about a beautiful city. Not your typical travel guide but more like meandering through Venice with a good and interesting friend. I've only been to Venice once. Something ...

About the author

Jan Morris served as an intelligence officer with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, studied at Oxford University, and was a reporter for the Times and the Guardian before launching into a successful career as a novelist, history author, and travel writer. Her other books include Last Letters from Hav, Fifty Years of Europe, Conundrum, Hong Kong, Oxford, The World of Venice, and Farewell the Trumpets.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The World of Venice; A Harvest Book
• Author: Jan Morris
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984
• ISBN: 0156983567, 9780156983563
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Italy; Travel / Europe / Italy