Henry James: Collected Travel Writings : The Continent : A Little Tour in France/Italian Hours/Other Travels [Lingua Inglese]: 4 - Rilegato

James, Henry

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ISBN 10: 0940450771 ISBN 13: 9780940450776

Casa editrice: Library of America, 1993

Riassunto

Collected for the first time, an anthology of Henry James's witty and urbane European travel writings begins with the classic A Little Tour of France, continues with Italian Hours, and concludes with sixteen essays on other European locales.

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Recensione:

“Few writing markets have expanded so dramatically as that of the travel guide. There are books in the hundreds ready to tell you where to eat, shop, sleep and be seen. I defy you to name any which will provide better company than these two have given me for the last fortnight. And yet the last piece was written in 1912 and the first in the 1860s.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

L'autore:

Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines.

In 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).

During his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.

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• Editore: Library of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0940450771
• ISBN 13: 9780940450776
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 868
• Redattore: Howard Richard