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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... society who were joined bycertain British figuresin thehigh ceilinged drawing room ofthe Barbaro's piano nobile. Here Robert Browning, friend of another American expatriate in Venice, Mrs Bronson, came fortea and chatted about ...
... society who were joined bycertain British figuresin thehigh ceilinged drawing room ofthe Barbaro's piano nobile. Here Robert Browning, friend of another American expatriate in Venice, Mrs Bronson, came fortea and chatted about ...
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... society” which James frequented both in Florence and in Venice—butalso in London andin Paris, a society that seems to weigh more and more onthe writer as theyears go by,as it erodedtimefrom his writing. Butevenamong these characters ...
... society” which James frequented both in Florence and in Venice—butalso in London andin Paris, a society that seems to weigh more and more onthe writer as theyears go by,as it erodedtimefrom his writing. Butevenamong these characters ...
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... SOCIETY An episode thatJames heard ina Florentine salon gavebirthtoa small and perfect masterpiece. Characters glimpsed during atea partyoran elegant dinneroffered the “germs” for possible new characters infiction. In Venice, Princess ...
... SOCIETY An episode thatJames heard ina Florentine salon gavebirthtoa small and perfect masterpiece. Characters glimpsed during atea partyoran elegant dinneroffered the “germs” for possible new characters infiction. In Venice, Princess ...
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... society inwhich helived, typified by his attitude to Isabella Stewart Gardner (“Mrs. Jack”).How can oneforget the portraitof thisrichand powerfullady, inthehabit of commanding people, whom Jamesaddressed ina halfjoking andhalf ...
... society inwhich helived, typified by his attitude to Isabella Stewart Gardner (“Mrs. Jack”).How can oneforget the portraitof thisrichand powerfullady, inthehabit of commanding people, whom Jamesaddressed ina halfjoking andhalf ...
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... society of expatriates in love with Italy gradually takesshape, sprinkledhere and there withexiled emperorsand princes, orwith visiting royalty, mixing with the few surviving members of the Venetian patrician classwho had escaped ruin ...
... society of expatriates in love with Italy gradually takesshape, sprinkledhere and there withexiled emperorsand princes, orwith visiting royalty, mixing with the few surviving members of the Venetian patrician classwho had escaped ruin ...
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