#henry james

[flowerytale]

Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady

[not2menotifitsyou]

To be loved is to be changed (!!!!!!!!)

The Mountain Goats // Wendy Cope // @8-bitfiction // Eden Robinson // Ada Limon // Bleachers // Amparo Dávila // Octavio Paz // Vladimir Nabokov // Henry James

[bnmxfld]

It has made me better, loving you.

Henry James / The Portrait of a Lady

[nobeerreviews]

She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

-- Henry James

(Roma)

[illustration-alcove]

Audrey Benjaminsen’s illustrations for Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.

[omgrandomwords]

WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER FOUR YEARS TO REALIZE HOW MANY TMA CHARACTERS ARE NAMED AFTER HORROR AUTHORS

[perfectquote]

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

Henry James

[thehopefulquotes]

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

Henry James

[thoughtkick]

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

Henry James

[pemberlaey]

things in 19th century novels that bring me an immense amount of joy

a passive aggressive pianoforte moment

any country dance scene

flower symbolism

the love interest telling the heroine he loves her mid panic attack

a women rejecting a marriage proposal from a man she hates

hands

when lore gets dropped via letter

and, most importantly, the First Name Drop™

[victoriansuggestion]

rather than going to bed, sit up reading, by the light of a couple of candles, an old book of last-century fiction

[flowerytale]

Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers' Binding Thursday

I found this book while browsing the stacks in search of a good publishers' binding. This one does not disappoint! This is Italian Hours by American-British author Henry James, published in 1909 by Houghton Mifflin Co. Italian Hours is a book of travel essays about Italy, a country that James loved, that are considered very charming but not unrealistic. This edition features illustrations of Italian scenes by American etcher, lithographer, and illustrator Joseph Pennell.

The cover features a mosaic-esque design stamped in gold with a blue florals and flourishes and leafy green patterns. The book cloth is a brickish red-orange color and the spine features a motif similar to that of the front cover. There's nothing special about the endsheets, which is always a disappointment to me. I just wish more people paid attention to the endsheets! But otherwise it's a very nice binding.

View more Publishers' Binding Thursday posts here.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949).

[megairea]

the sweet melancholy of her name

Henry James, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, 1868

[quotemadness]

It has made me better, loving you.

Henry James