Written by Henry James, Portraits of Places is a record of the author's reminiscences of his travels in Italy, France, and England during 1876 1882. Beginning in Venice, James takes the reader on a journey through Italy to France (Paris, Rheims, Normandy and the Pyrenees) and England (London, Warwickshire). His finely crafted word-portraits vividly evoke the less-frequented monuments of Europe, the abbeys and castles, events and festivals, and the scenic beauty of London at different times of the year. Also included are sketches of four scenic locales in North America: Saratoga, Newport,...

Henry James (1843 - 1916) was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known for his series of novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. James is considered to be the master of the novel and novella. James wrote about personal relationships and the power within these relationships. James explored consciousness and perception from the point of view of a character within a tale. The Author of Beltraffio tells of a man who has written a novel. He has a rigid Calvinistic wife who despises his work. She hopes to keep his son away form the...

After living abroad for 20 years, Henry James returned to his native America and travelled down the East Coast from Boston to Florida. This a journal describing his feelings on the rediscovery of the New York of his childhood, and the growth of modern commercial America. He muses on Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson; in Washington, he finds a cityscape devoid of spiritual symbols; in Richmond, thoughts of the civil war haunt him. Published in 1907, this journal also served as a farewell address to the country James would never live in again.

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Dies ist vielleicht die persönlichste und berührendste Erzählung des großen amerikanischen Meisters. Walter Kappacher hat sie ins Deutsche übertragen.

"Jedermann mag 'Washington Square', sogar die Verächter von Henry James." Donald Hall

"Hier erreicht James' Können seinen Höhepunkt an Raffinement, auch im Sprachlichen." Die Rheinpfalz § 100. Todestag von Henry James§§Eindrucksvoll schildert Henry James in seiner berühmten Geistergeschichte das Grauen beim Einbrechen des Irrationalen in die scheinbar heile Welt. Einer der faszinierendsten Texte der Weltliteratur.§