The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (Hardcover)

About the book:

Stone's novel of Michelangelo's life is one of the defining works of biographical fiction, the genre that attempts to inhabit a historical figure from within rather than observe them from without. It follows Michelangelo from his apprenticeship in the Medici gardens through the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and Stone did the research seriously: years in Florence, learning to carve marble. What results is less a novel about art than a novel about obsession; the particular madness of someone for whom the work is the only thing that matters. Readable, substantial, and built to last.

First edition 1961 - sold as reading copy.

Condition:

Good secondhand condition.
Wear to cover.
All pages well bound and intact.

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