Italian Hours
by Henry James
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About This Book
Despite the fact that Henry James visited Italy fourteen times and set much of his best-known fiction in Venice, Florence, and Rome, his complex Italian Hours essays have never received the attention they deserve. These absorbing essays provide far-reaching comment on artistic production, on religion, on social upheaval and the movement into the modern age, as well as on the power of reminiscence and the nature of travel itself. Furthermore, they reveal a sometimes surprising Henry James who was fascinated by papal politics, by the aftermath of the risorgimento , by upper-class Roman in Naples...
Chapters (80)
- ITALIAN HOURS
- Published November 1909
- PREFACE
- H. J.
- VENICE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- 1882.
- THE GRAND CANAL
- 1892.
- VENICE: AN EARLY IMPRESSION
- 1872
- TWO OLD HOUSES AND THREE YOUNG WOMEN
- I
- II
- III
- {1899.}
- CASA ALVISI
- FROM CHAMBÉRY TO MILAN
- THE OLD SAINT-GOTHARD LEAVES FROM A NOTE-BOOK
- 1873.
- ITALY REVISITED
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- 1877.
- A ROMAN HOLIDAY
- 1873.
- ROMAN RIDES
- 1873.
- ROMAN NEIGHBOURHOODS
- THE AFTER-SEASON IN ROME
- FROM A ROMAN NOTE-BOOK
- 1873.
- A FEW OTHER ROMAN NEIGHBOURHOODS
- 1909.
- A CHAIN OF CITIES
- 1873.
- SIENA EARLY AND LATE
- I
- 1873. II
- 1909.
- THE AUTUMN IN FLORENCE
- 1873.
- FLORENTINE NOTES
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- TUSCAN CITIES
- 1874.
- OTHER TUSCAN CITIES
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- RAVENNA
- 1873.
- THE SAINT’S AFTERNOON AND OTHERS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- 1900-1909.
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