Henry James and Venice - PICTURES FROM ITALY (Est. 2001).
Henry James Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro Pushkin Press. A lovely little book from an always-reliable publisher with a strong Venetian-subject bias in it's catalogue. It has good notes and introduction by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, the woman whose name seems to be on all the better books about Henry James in Venice.The Henry James Society brings together scholars and enthusiasts interested in Henry James and the James family. Membership can be secured through a subscription to the Henry James Review, edited by Greg Zacharias at Creighton University and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal is devoted to contemporary scholarship in.One of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley 's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, who saved them until she died.
James himself reminds us of this in the well-known opening paragraph of his 1882 essay on Venice: Venice has been painted and described many thousands of times, and of all the cities of the world is the easiest to visit without going there.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.
Samuel West reads from the novella by Henry James, set against the decaying grandeur of Venice.
