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English Hours
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,
- Summary:
- "English Hours" by Henry James is a collection of essays written in the late 19th century. This work reflects the author's observations and impressions of various places in England, conveying his personal anecdotes and contemplative insights about the British landscape, culture, and society. The essays serve as a travelogue and a cultural critique, allowing readers to explore different English locales through the lens of James's distinctive perspective. The opening of the collection begins with the author recalling his first impressions of London, evoking a vivid memory of his arrival on a rainy Sunday. He describes the atmosphere of the city, his experiences in a coffee room, and his contemplations of London as both intimidating and intriguing. James expresses wonder at the Old World charm of the city, contrasting it with his American sensibilities. He captures the city's vastness, complexity, and idiosyncratic character while reflecting on the emotional and intellectual responses that it provokes in him as a newcomer to England, setting the stage for his explorations in the rest of the essays. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Contents:
- London
- Browning in Westminster Abbey
- Chester
- Lichfield and Warwick
- North Devon
- Wells and Salisbury
- An English Easter
- London at midsummer
- Two excursions
- In Warwickshire
- Abbeys and castles
- English vignettes
- An English New Year
- An English watering-place
- Winchelsea, Rye, and "Denis Duval"
- Old Suffolk.
- Credits:
- Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Notes:
- Reading ease score: 57.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
- Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Hours
- Release date is 2019-02-22
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