English Hours

A quiet, attentive observer of people and places, Henry James's English Hours returns with a fresh sense of urgency and grace. A gateway to a vanished world, it invites readers to move through essay, travel writing, and nonfiction prose with the same exacting eye James brought to English society. This collection offers more than reminiscence: it is a vivid map of fin de siecle culture, tracing edwardian england from sprawling London drawing rooms to quiet provinces. Its pages mingle cultura...