Travelling in Italy with Henry James
by Henry James
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Henry James was not only a great Victorian novelist. He was also one of the great travel writers of all time. Traveling in Italy with Henry James combines his vivid letters home from Italy with a selection of his most heartfelt and eloquent essays about the cities and rural areas he visited between 1869 and 1907. First arriving in Italy a year before it was united as a secular state, James was a firsthand observer of Italy's national adolescence and early adulthood. His letters bear witness show more to his spontaneous responses to the dramatic geography and the extroverted people, which were a refreshing contrast to the rainy climate and reserved Victorians he was accustomed to. In the essays James delves more deeply into his Italian experience. Unlike other collections of Henry James's Italian travel writing, Kaplan's anthology has been arranged geographically: He compiles for readers and tourists a literary map of James's Italy. This small, portable volume is the ideal companion for any explorer of Italy, and for the armchair tourist, Kaplan's collection provides a city-by-city tour of Florence, Venice, Rome, and the breathtaking countryside in between. In James's prose writings on Italy, readers will find the sensuous, passionate, human side of one of the most inspired writers in the English language. show lessTags
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- Travelling in Italy with Henry James
- Original publication date
- 1994; 1995 (paperback edition) (paperback edition)
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- Travel, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 914.504 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Europe Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta subdivisions and modified standard subdivisions Travel; guidebooks
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- DG427 .J3523 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania City History of Italy Medieval and modern Italy, 476- Description and travel
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