Letters From the Palazzo BarbaroSteerforth Press, 29 sty 2013 - 224 The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters covers the period 1869-1907 and provides a unique record of the life and work of this great writer. Includes historical photographs and a foreword by Leon Edel, Henry James’s biographer. |
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... delightfully quiet days there,in spite of the scorching scirocco, allowing the beauty of the place to sink into himself, almost passively. He wrote about it, with some humour, to Mrs. Curtis (XV), telling her that she, the real mistress ...
... delightfully quiet days there,in spite of the scorching scirocco, allowing the beauty of the place to sink into himself, almost passively. He wrote about it, with some humour, to Mrs. Curtis (XV), telling her that she, the real mistress ...
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... delight inthe secret marvels ofhis handling. Itgives me a strong sense of the vastness and strangeness ofart,to compare these two men, Bellini and Tintoretto—toreflect upontheir almostequal greatness and yet their immense dissimilarity ...
... delight inthe secret marvels ofhis handling. Itgives me a strong sense of the vastness and strangeness ofart,to compare these two men, Bellini and Tintoretto—toreflect upontheir almostequal greatness and yet their immense dissimilarity ...
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... delightful choicesofsleeping with my window openandbeing devoured—maddened, poisoned—or closing it,in spite of theheat,and being stifled! (I havemade no allusion to the contents of Mother's letter, which I none the less prize. ... But I ...
... delightful choicesofsleeping with my window openandbeing devoured—maddened, poisoned—or closing it,in spite of theheat,and being stifled! (I havemade no allusion to the contents of Mother's letter, which I none the less prize. ... But I ...
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... delight to him, and it was his mission to dilate upon them”,ashe wrote in 1873 (French Writers in Literary Criticism cit.,p.367.) 12. At the Accademia Gallery, just as the Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel, whichare however ateye level now ...
... delight to him, and it was his mission to dilate upon them”,ashe wrote in 1873 (French Writers in Literary Criticism cit.,p.367.) 12. At the Accademia Gallery, just as the Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel, whichare however ateye level now ...
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... delightful letter of February 8th, following (at a shorter interval than I deserved), a most benevolent one of November 23d, which reached me in Florence shortly after I had written to you at Pisa. [...] I came to this place five days ...
... delightful letter of February 8th, following (at a shorter interval than I deserved), a most benevolent one of November 23d, which reached me in Florence shortly after I had written to you at Pisa. [...] I came to this place five days ...
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