I’ll be vacationing in Italy next week! Any recommendations for good classics to read (e.g. set in Italy)? Bonus points if it’s about ancient Rome!
I’ll be vacationing in Italy next week! Any recommendations for good classics to read (e.g. set in Italy)? Bonus points if it’s about ancient Rome!
Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Such an excellent read! Perfect for an Italian vacation!
The Colleen McCullough Rome books are very good.
Lucky you ! Buon Viaggio. It’s not a Classic book but I really like the Aurelio Zen novels by the late Michael Dibdin. Funny , I don’t really like mysteries / nor series books, but I love his writing and the stories are all set in Italian and Sicilian cities.
The portrait of a lady by James , plus it’s free on iBooks ?
No! Not free for everyone…
Room with a view. Romeo and Juliet
“The Woman in the Window”
A J Finn
“A Room with a View” by E.M. Forrester
(Set mostly in Italy)
Roman Fever is a quick hit!
Free for Kindle on Amazon!
Also free for Kindle
Certainly, I like real books, but I’ll be enjoying Rome for three weeks come October – I hope to “carry” many books over!?? Please keep the recommendations coming!!
This is the app I used to use a lot when I first got my iPad five years ago. It used to be called free books. You can search for it that way but I now see it’s called My Books. Looks like it has audio now too. But the main thing is it has only classics. Very easy search function by author or by genre.
Elena Ferrante’s books
Books by Umberto Eco and Alessandro Baricco are good, though some may say they are not classic yet ?
Call me by your name – Andre Aciman. Though maybe not a classic, but a beautiful book that makes you want to go to Italy