Notebooks of Henry James
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 1984
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844660981
Subjects: Literature: Classics
First sentence: - A young Englishman, travelling in Italy twenty years ago, meets, in some old town-Perugia, Siena, Ravenna-two ladies, a mother and daughter, with whom he has some momentary relation: the mother a quiet, delicate, interesting, touching, high bred woman-the portrait of a perfect lady, of the old English school, with a tone of sadness in the picture; the daughter a beautiful, picturesque high-tempered girl; generous, ardent, even tender, but with a good deal of coquetry and a certain amount of hardness.