'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but
there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on
this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into
black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' Henry James
left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted
country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpool, he made
his way first to London, the 'dreadful, delightful city', which he
would come to both love and hate. James revelled in the exoticism
and immensity of all that was unknown to him and his writing spills
over with youthful excitement, humour and vivid descriptions of the
people, landscapes, towns and cities he encountered. In London, he
marvelled at the architecture of Christopher Wren and the glamour
of the Strand and observed with equal pleasure the seedier parts of
the city, where gin shops glowed on the corners of dark alleys. He
later set out to explore the English countryside: Chester, Warwick,
Devon, Wells, Salisbury, Suffolk and Rye, where he eventually
settled, bought Lamb House and wrote prolifically - producing some
of his finest works, including What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the
Dove, The Golden Bowl and The Middle Years. First published in
1905, English Hours is one of Henry James' most loved works of
travel and a now-classic portrait of England by one of the great
masters of 19th century literature.
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