The Complete Travel Books of W.D. Howells (Illustrated Edition)

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William Dean Howells. The Complete Travel Books of W.D. Howells (Illustrated Edition)

The Complete Travel Books of W.D. Howells (Illustrated Edition)

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Table of Contents

VENETIAN LIFE

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Chapter 1. Venice in Venice

Chapter 2. Arrival and First Days in Venice

Chapter 3. The Winter in Venice

Chapter 4. Comincia Far Caldo

Chapter 5. Opera and Theatres

Chapter 6. Venetian Dinners and Diners

Chapter 7. Housekeeping in Venice

Chapter 8. The Balcony on the Grand Canal

Chapter 9. A Day-break Ramble

Chapter 10. The Mouse

Chapter 11. Churches and Pictures

Chapter 12. Some Islands of the Lagoons

Chapter 13. The Armenians

Chapter 14. The Ghetto and the Jews of Venice

Chapter 15. Some Memorable Places

Chapter 16. Commerce

Chapter 17. Venetian Holidays

Chapter 18. Christmas Holidays

Chapter 19. Love-making and Marrying; Baptisms and Burials

Chapter 20. Venetian Traits and Characters

Chapter 21. Society

Chapter 22. Our Last Year in Venice

ITALIAN JOURNEYS

The Road From Rome to Venice

I. Leaving Venice

II. From Padua to Ferrara

III. The Picturesque, the Improbable, and the Pathetic in Ferrara

IV. Through Bologna to Genoa

V. Up and Down Genoa

VI. By Sea From Genoa to Naples

VII. Certain Things in Naples

VIII. A Day in Pompeii

IX. A Half-Hour at Herculaneum

X. Capri and Capriotes

XI. The Protestant Ragged Schools at Naples

XII. Between Rome and Naples

XIII. Roman Pearls

Forza Maggiore

At Padua

I

II

III

A Pilgrimage

I

II

III

A Visit to the Cimbri

Minor Travels

I. Pisa

II. The Ferrara Road

III. Trieste

IV. Bassano

V. Possagno, Canova's Birthplace

VI. Como

Stopping at Vicenza, Verona, and Parma

I

II

III

Ducal Mantua

ROMAN HOLIDAYS and Others

I. Up and Down Madeira

II. Two Up-Town Blocks Into Spain

III. Ashore at Genoa

IV. Naples and Her Joyful Noise

V. Pompeii Revisited

VI. Roman Holidays

I. Hotels, Pensions, and Apartments

II. A Praise of New Rome

III. The Colosseum and the Forum

IV. The Anglo-American Neighborhood of the Spanish Steps

V. An Effort to Be Honest With Antiquity

VI. Personal Relations With the Past

VII. Chances in Churches

VIII. A Few Villas

IX. Dramatic Incidents

X. Seeing Rome as Romans See Us

XI. In and About the Vatican

XII. Superficial Observations and Conjectures

XIII. Casual Impressions

XIV. Tivoli and Frascati

XV. A Few Remaining Moments

VII. A Week at Leghorn

VIII. Over at Pisa

IX. Back at Genoa

X. Eden After the Fall

SUBURBAN SKETCHES

Mrs. Johnson

Doorstep Acquaintance

A Pedestrian Tour

By Horse-Car to Boston

A Day's Pleasure

I.—The Morning

II—The Afternoon

III.—The Evening

A Romance of Real Life

Scene

Jubilee Days

Some Lessons From the School of Morals

Flitting

FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS

Autobiographical Approaches

San Sebastian and Beautiful Biscay

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

Burgos and the Bitter Cold of Burgos

I

II

III

IV

VI

VII

VIII

The Variety of Valladolid

I

II

IV

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

Phases of Madrid

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

XI

XII

A Night and Day in Toledo

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

The Great Gridiron of St. Lawrence

I

II

III

IV

VI

Cordova and the Way There

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

First Days in Seville

II

III

IV

VI

VII

VIII

Sevillian Aspects and Incidents

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

To and in Granada

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

XI

The Surprises of Ronda

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Algeciras and Tarifa

II

III

IV

VI

A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN

First Paper

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

Second Paper

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

LONDON FILMS

Meteorological Emotions

Civil and Social Comparisons

Shows and Side-Shows of State

Dun's Year Brilliant Flower

Sights and Sounds of the Streets

Some Misgivings as to the American Invasion

In the Gallery of the Commons

The Means of Sojourn

Certain Traits of the London Springtime

Sight-Seeing

Glimpses of the Lowly and the Lowlier

Twice-Seen Sights and Half-Fancied Facts

An Afternoon at Hampton Court

A Sunday Morning in the Country

Fishing for Whitebait

Henley Day

American Origins-Mostly Northern

American Origins-Mostly Southern

Aspects and Intimations

Parting Guests

SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES

A Modest Liking for Liverpool

I

II

III

IV

V

Some Merits of Manchester

I

II

III

IV

In Smokiest Sheffield

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Nine Days' Wonder in York

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

Two Yorkish Episodes

I

II

III

IV

A Day at Doncaster and an Hour Out of Durham

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

The Mother of the American Athens

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

Aberystwyth, a Welsh Watering-Place

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

Llandudno, Another Welsh Watering-Place

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

Glimpses of English Character

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

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XVIII

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William Dean Howells

ITALIAN JOURNEYS

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“It is a woman, poor little thing! Dead in child-bed. The baby is in there with her.”

It has been a cheerful funeral, and yet we are not in great spirits as we go back to the city.

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