Italian Hours

ISBN-13: 9781535061612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 190 str.

Henry James

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Italian HoursByHenry JamesItalian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole. He also added two new essays and an introduction.Italian Hours ends with the phrase, -the luxury of loving Italy, - and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But he was by no means a blind lover. His opening essay on Venice, for instance, doesn't gloss over the sad conditions of life for the city's people: -Their habitations are decayed; their taxes heavy; their pockets light; their opportunities few.-CONTENTS

• PREFACE
• VENICE
• THE GRAND CANAL
• VENICE: AN EARLY IMPRESSION
• TWO OLD HOUSES AND THREE YOUNG WOMEN
• CASA ALVISI
• FROM CHAMBERY TO MILAN
• THE OLD SAINT-GOTHARD LEAVES FROM A NOTE-BOOK
• ITALY REVISITED
• A ROMAN HOLIDAY
• ROMAN RIDES
• ROMAN NEIGHBOURHOODS
• THE AFTER-SEASON IN ROME
• FROM A ROMAN NOTE-BOOK
• A FEW OTHER ROMAN NEIGHBOURHOODS
• A CHAIN OF CITIES
• SIENA EARLY AND LATE
• THE AUTUMN IN FLORENCE
• FLORENTINE NOTES
• TUSCAN CITIES
• OTHER TUSCAN CITIES
• RAVENNA
• THE SAINT'S AFTERNOON AND OTHERS