The Private Life [Hardcover]

Henry James (Other Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

From "The Private Life": We talked of London, face to face with a great bristling, primeval glacier. The hour and the scene were one of those impressions which make up a little, in Switzerland, for the modern indignity of travel -- the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy attention, the reduction to a numbered state. The high valley was pink with the mountain rose, the cool air as fresh as if the world were young. There was a faint flush of afternoon on undiminished snows, and the fraternizing tinkle of the unseen cattle came to us with a cropped and sun-warmed odor. The balconied inn stood on the very neck of the sweetest pass in the Oberland, and for a week we had had company and weather. This was felt to be great luck, for one would have made up for the other had either been bad. . . . Also includes "The Wheel of Time," "Lord Beaupre," "The Visits," "Collaboration," "Owen Wingrave."

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809595257
• ISBN-13: 978-0809595259
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)