In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruins casts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination.

In Ruins

Christopher Woodward

History

VINTAGE (RAND)

Guide to the Architecture of London

London has an unrivalled richness of architecture, from its squares and houses to its palaces and churches. This is the only guide to cover all of London's building history, from its Roman foundation to the massive expansion of the nineteenth century which made London the largest city on earth.

Arts & Photography

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Photography & Video

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Library of contemporary architects)

Yukio Futagawa

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

A Rake's Progress: From Hogarth to Hockney

Robin Simon

Apollo Magazine Ltd

Rameses, the "Egyptian Wonderworker" was an illusionist of the Edwardian era. Born Albert Marchinski in Poland in 1876, he grew up in London in a distinctly middle class home. But as Rameses, he achieved financial and artistic successes beyond the dreams of most entertainers. His fast-moving, exciting and colorful illusions took him to the stage of London s prestigious Palladium eight times. In addition, he played England's top theaters and made triumphant tours of America, South Africa, and Europe. The highlight of his career was perhaps an appearance on the very first Royal Variety Performance attended by The King & Queen of England. Despite his theatrical triumphs, it was the stage that proved Rameses undoing. Little has been written about Rameses life and magic even though his was a singular approach to illusions and he enjoyed a career most magicians would envy. Thanks to Christopher Woodward s diligent research, his story can now be told. Rameses the Fogotten Star tells a previously unknown rags to riches story that ends back in rags. Along the way, readers learn the secrets behind Rameses' illusions (including his spectacular levitation), thrill at his theatrical conquests, and see how quickly that success slipped away. A 132 page deluxe clothbound edition, illustrated with rare photographs and memorabilia, color plates, complemented by a satin bookmark ribbon.

Rameses the Forgotten Star

Squash Publishing

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