Skip to content

In the canon

Italian Hours

Henry James

Form
Form Travel Writing
Year
Year 1909
Pages
Pages 350

"It is a great pleasure to write the word." So Henry James begins on Venice, then admits the impudence of adding anything to a city already painted and described many thousands of times. He adds anyway, and keeps at it for nearly forty years.

May in Venice is better than April, but June is best of all.
Italian Hours, Henry James

The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.

Italian Hours by Henry James · The Daily Canon