Henry James: Travel Writings Vol. 2 (LOA #65)
The Continent
$81.17
- Hardcover
868 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1993
Summary
Henry James’s travel writings are at once literary masterpieces, unsurpassed guidebooks and penetrating reflections on the international themes familiar from his fiction.This volume, the second of two, begins with the classicA Little Tour in France(1900), illustrated with Joseph Pennell’s exquisite drawings from the original edition. James begins his tour of the French countryside one rainy morning in mid-September of 1882, when he sets off for the city of Tours as a means of exploring the pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940450776 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940450771 |
| Author: | Henry James, Richard Howard |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 868 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1993 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 131mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Library of America Collected Nonfiction of Henry James |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Henry James
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. His many works includeWashington 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) andThe Golden Bowl(1904). He died in London in February 1916.Richard Howard, volume editor, is a critic, translator, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. He is Professor of Practice in the School of the Arts of Columbia University.
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