Italian Hours - Softcover

James, Henry

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ISBN 10: 8562022810 ISBN 13: 9788562022814

Publisher: IAP, 2009

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Italian Hours is a book with essays that James had written over nearly forty years about Italy. In this work, James details the "luxury of loving Italy" and Venice and Rome receive a longer and well-deserved treatment.

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"Italian Hours is Henry James's most endearing travel book and one of the best of its kind by any American. His travel writing is a superb and integral part of his total output. John Auchard's editorial work on Italian Hours provide a significant contribution to the literature on James. Auchard is a wizard. His introduction is wise and skillful, informative, beautiful, stylish, and fun. The notes are helpful, unobtrusive, and richly detailed. The photographs and bibliography should combine to make this edition the 'definitive' one for a century of devoted readers."--Robert L. Gale

About the Author:

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

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