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Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro Illustrated edition
Author(s): Henry James (Author), Patricia Curtis (Afterword), Leon Edel (Preface)
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 1998
- Edition: Illustrated edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1901285073
- ISBN-13: 9781901285079
Book Description
This collection has been selected and edited by R. Mamoli Zorzi, Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari. It contains previously unpublished manuscript letters. In addition to the Introduction by the editor, it has a Foreword by the late Leon Edel, the great James biographer and editor.
Editorial Reviews
Review
James is one of the most satisfying of all letter-writers because of thte endlessly surprising plasticity with which he handles the language of even his most trifling communications … and may our correspondence be as lovingly edited and presented as it is here by Dottoressa Rosella Mamoli Zorzi of Venice University. –JONATHAN KEATES Spectator
Paints a vivid and absorbing picture of life in fin de siecle Venice. –RACHELLE THACKRAY Independent on Sunday
This well-edited and beautifully produced little volume allows one, however fleetingly, to be a mosquito on the palazzo wall. STEPHEN COOTE Gay Times — Henry James’s marvellously observant letters. –CAROLINE GASCOIGNE The Sunday Times
About the Author
Henry James (1843-1916) is one of the most prominent figures of American and British Literature. A prolific novelist, essayist and literary critic, James was much concerned with questions of identity, belonging, creativity and consciousness. He is perhaps most famous for his novels The Bostonians and The Portrait of a Lady, and for his ghost story The Turn of the Screw.
