Italian Hours; Essays On Travels
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2023-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3387051735 |
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Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2023-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3387051735 |
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2023-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368351729 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected and were then associated with others commemorative of other impressions of (no very extensive) excursions and wanderings.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2019-11-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781710266245 |
In these essays on travels in Italy written from 1872 to 1909, Henry James explores art and religion, political shifts and cultural revolutions, and the nature of travel itself. James's enthusiastic appreciation of the unparalleled aesthetic allure of Venice, the vitality of Rome, and the noisy, sensuous appeal of Naples is everywhere marked by pervasive regret for the disappearance of the past and by ambivalence concerning the transformation of nineteenth-century Europe.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781724898418 |
Italian Hours By Henry James, 1909 Italian 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... We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-09 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781835520307 |
Italian 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."
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1995-09-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0547540434 |
“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly). A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellers—Umberto Eco takes readers on “a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life” (Publishers Weekly) as he journeys around the world and into his own wildly adventurous mind. From the mundane details of getting around on Amtrak or in the back of a cab, to reflections on computer jargon and soccer fans, to more important issues like the effects of mass media and consumer civilization—not to mention the challenges of trying to refrigerate an expensive piece of fish at an English hotel—this renowned writer, semiotician, and philosopher provides “an uncanny combination of the profound and the profane” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Eco entertains with his clever reflections and with his unique persona.” —Kirkus Reviews Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Author | : Michel de Montaigne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2018-12-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781790651948 |
Italian 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.Summary and themesItalian 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."Still, James goes on to sketch enough of the beauty of Venice to make it seem a fair compensation. Throughout the book he constantly comes back to the beauty and amenity of Italian life, despite the all too frequent material shortcomings. Venice and Rome get the most extended treatment, but James doesn't neglect the rest of the country. His Roman essays, though, show the strongest touch of his own experiences, especially his long rides on horseback through the Campagna and his many walks through various neighborhoods in the city...Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and continental Europeans - examples of such novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove. His later works were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often made use of a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to impressionist painting.James also published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man and eventually settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916.
Author | : William Swan Sonnenschein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Best books |
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