The Collected Works of Henry James, Vol. 14 (of 24): English Hours; The Pension Beaurepas; A Bundle of Letters - Couverture souple

James, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1662714904 ISBN 13 : 9781662714900

Editeur : Bookland Classics, 2020

Synopsis

English Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1905. The book collected various essays James had written on England over a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the 1870s. The essays had originally appeared in such periodicals as The Nation, The Century Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Galaxy and Lippincott's Magazine. James wrote a new introduction for the book and extensively reed many of the essays to create a more coherent whole.


England was James' adopted country, so it is not surprising that the essays in English Hours are primarily positive and sometimes downright cheerful. The essay on London which begins the book gives full play to the British capital's definitely non-beautiful impression on James when he arrived in 1869:


"It was not lovely - it was in fact rather horrible; but as I move again through dusky, tortuous miles, in the greasy four-wheeler to which my luggage had compelled me to commit myself, I recognize the first step in an initiation of which the subsequent stages were to abound in pleasant things."


"A Bundle of Letters" is a comic short story by Henry James, originally published in The Parisian magazine in 1879, which is also when the story takes place. The story is one of James' few ventures into epistolary fiction. As he did so often, especially in the early stages of his career, James made the tale part of his international theme: his letter-writers represent a number of different countries. Although some of the characters look like well-worn stereotypes - the wolfish Frenchman, the pedantic and aggressively nationalistic German, the snobbish upper-class English siblings - James manages to endow most of them with enough twists and turns of personality to interest the reader. One character has even been taken as a sly satire on himself.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bookland Classics
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1662714904
• ISBN 13: 9781662714900
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible