Italian Hours

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole. He also added two new essays and an introduction.

Table of contents

Venice

The Grand Canal

Venice: An Early Impression

Two Old Houses and Three Young Women

Casa Alvisi

From Chambéry to Milan

The Old Saint-Gothard

Italy Revisited

A Roman Holiday

Roman Rides

Roman Neighbourhoods

The After-Season in Rome

From a Roman Note-Book

A Few Other Roman Neighbourhoods

A Chain of Cities

Siena Early and Late

The Autumn in Florence

Florentine Notes

Tuscan Cities

Other Tuscan Cities

Ravenna

The Saint"s Afternoon and Others

Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.