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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... staying in different houses: he nolongerused the lodgings of CasaBarbesi, ortherooms onthe Riva degli Schiavoni where hehad been vainly tryingto writeThe Portrait ofaLady. He had enjoyed the hospitalityofMrs. Bronson's Casa Alvisi, on ...
... staying in different houses: he nolongerused the lodgings of CasaBarbesi, ortherooms onthe Riva degli Schiavoni where hehad been vainly tryingto writeThe Portrait ofaLady. He had enjoyed the hospitalityofMrs. Bronson's Casa Alvisi, on ...
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... staying in that Casa Biondetti where Miss Woolson hadlived before moving to Palazzo Semitecolo, andwhere hehad actedasher literaryexecutor. Morethan one contemporary witness wrote of James recountingina suppressed, devious way, of the ...
... staying in that Casa Biondetti where Miss Woolson hadlived before moving to Palazzo Semitecolo, andwhere hehad actedasher literaryexecutor. Morethan one contemporary witness wrote of James recountingina suppressed, devious way, of the ...
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... staying here—provisionally—with my old friend Mrs. Bronson (who lived,athousand years ago, at Newportand has ... stayed.ButI amlodged in an old palazzo GiustinianRecanati, which, in her rear, forms a kind of detached wingor appendage to ...
... staying here—provisionally—with my old friend Mrs. Bronson (who lived,athousand years ago, at Newportand has ... stayed.ButI amlodged in an old palazzo GiustinianRecanati, which, in her rear, forms a kind of detached wingor appendage to ...
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... stay;of Petrarch and Dante, of the Egyptian alphabet,and of the game of chess (hewas editorofthe American Chess Monthly in 1857, and in 1858–60 with P. Morphy). He left his Icelandic literature and his Dante collections to ...
... stay;of Petrarch and Dante, of the Egyptian alphabet,and of the game of chess (hewas editorofthe American Chess Monthly in 1857, and in 1858–60 with P. Morphy). He left his Icelandic literature and his Dante collections to ...
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... stay—and then I shouldhave brought him to you. But I shall assist in spirit at your causeries and bless your relations. Believe me, in advance, very gratefully yours, and Mr. Curtis's— Henry James NOTE 1. Paul Bourget (1852–1935), the ...
... stay—and then I shouldhave brought him to you. But I shall assist in spirit at your causeries and bless your relations. Believe me, in advance, very gratefully yours, and Mr. Curtis's— Henry James NOTE 1. Paul Bourget (1852–1935), the ...
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