Italian Hours; Essays On Travels

Italian Hours; Essays On Travels
Title Italian Hours; Essays On Travels PDF eBook
Author Henry James
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 473
Release 2023-04-27
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3368351729

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Italian Hours

Italian Hours
Title Italian Hours PDF eBook
Author Henry James
Publisher
Pages 656
Release 1909
Genre Italy
ISBN

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One Italian Summer

One Italian Summer
Title One Italian Summer PDF eBook
Author Pip Williams
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 289
Release 2017-03-01
Genre Travel
ISBN 1925475859

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Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable thing - they quit their jobs, pulled the children out of school and went searching for la dolce vita in Italy. One Italian Summer is a warm, funny and poignant story of a family's search for a better way of living, in the homes and on the farms of strangers. Pip sleeps in a tool shed, feasts under a Tuscan sun, works like a tractor in Calabria and, eventually, finds the good life she's always dreamed of - though not at all where she expected.

How to Travel with a Salmon

How to Travel with a Salmon
Title How to Travel with a Salmon PDF eBook
Author Umberto Eco
Publisher HMH
Pages 259
Release 1995-09-15
Genre Humor
ISBN 0547540434

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“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly). A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellers—Umberto Eco takes readers on “a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life” (Publishers Weekly) as he journeys around the world and into his own wildly adventurous mind. From the mundane details of getting around on Amtrak or in the back of a cab, to reflections on computer jargon and soccer fans, to more important issues like the effects of mass media and consumer civilization—not to mention the challenges of trying to refrigerate an expensive piece of fish at an English hotel—this renowned writer, semiotician, and philosopher provides “an uncanny combination of the profound and the profane” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Eco entertains with his clever reflections and with his unique persona.” —Kirkus Reviews Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller
Title Daisy Miller PDF eBook
Author Henry James
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 128
Release 2007-06-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0141907878

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Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.

Washington Square

Washington Square
Title Washington Square PDF eBook
Author Henry James
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 256
Release 2007-06-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0141922141

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When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father’s love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ever declared his love for her, Catherine faces an agonising dilemma, and becomes all too aware of the restrictions that others seek to place on her freedom. James’s masterly novel deftly interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a deeply moving study of innocence destroyed.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Title The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories PDF eBook
Author Henry James
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 384
Release 2017-10-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0141389761

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An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny 'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstep' 'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'The Turn of the Screw', a work saturated with evil, in which a fraught governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care. The other masterly works here include 'The Jolly Corner', 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of visitations, premonitions, madness, grief and family secrets, where the living are just as mysterious and unknowable as the dead. With an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt General Editor Philip Horne