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On Provence
By Henry James
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Meander through Provence in the company of Henry James experiencing the sights, culture and sounds of late nineteenth-century Southern France in this new book in Hesperus's bestselling 'On' series. In 1882, a year after the publication of his wildly successful The Portrait of a Lady, which dealt with the difficulties faced by American expatriate Daisy Miller in Europe, Henry James set out a six-week tour of south-eastern France, taking in Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse and Arles. Although a sometime resident of Paris, James was convinced that the soul of France resided not in the capital but in the provinces, and he set out to find it. Beginning in Touraine, James followed the course of the Rhô;ne north to Burgundy, writing articles on architecture, literature and personal observation that were serialised in The Atlantic Monthly. The resulting work is a fascinating patchwork, switching seamlessly between the broad strokes of classic travel writing and the smallest details of human behaviour for which James is best known. On provence is at once an excellent example of James' prose writing and an outstanding work of travel writing in its own right.
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Henry James (1843-1916), the son of the religious philosopher Henry James Sr. and brother of the psychologist and philosopher William James, published many important novels including Daisy Miller, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, and The Ambassadors.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The non-fiction of Henry james gets much less attention than the novels and novellae. Still, James wrote a avriety of essays, biography, including autobiography, and travel writing. Of the latter, Italian Hours and The American Scene have remained popular. An earlier book on travel in France now remains somewhat obscure. It was originally serialized as En Provence and published in book form in 1884 as A Little Tour in France. In 2014, the Hesperus Press published a selection from this work under the title On Provence.The text of On Provence represents only one-third of the original work, A Little Tour in France, or only 13 of 40 short chapters. It includes James descriptions of the cities of Narbonne, Montpellier, The Pont du Gard, Aigues-Mortes, Nîmes, Tarascon, Arles, Arles (the Museum), Les Baux, Avignon, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Vaucluse and Orange. The original preface by Henry James is included. The Hesperus edition begins with a description of Narbonne, which is given section number 1 (section 24 in the original edition), and finishes with the description of Orange as section 13 (corresponding to section 36). On the whole, this poses few problems, although the text contains some references to James's earlier description of Carcassonne.It has been suggested that 0ne reason why A Little Tour in France is now less popular is the predominant interest of Henry James for remains of classic origins, castles and architecture. Travel in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century, was a very different thing from the present-day travel experience, although particularly to well-educated travellers today, visiting important buildings is still part of the program. However, while sight-seeing is now just a part of a travel itinerary, to travellers at that day and age it was the main thing, and they went about it in a very systematic way. Modern travellers may make a very eclectic use of a travel guide, focussing mainly on the most famous spots, and devote more time to other activities. Nineteenth century travellers studied their travel guides as textbooks, viewing the sites as actual illustrations. Travel was a very studious affair, sampling monuments from (classical) history, to gain a better understanding of history and our cultural heritage. After all, although there were illustrated books and paintings, there were no films or DVDs.Serious travellers would choose an authoritative travel guide book and follow up on all of their suggestions. Readers of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View may remember how Lucy carries her Baedeker of Italy guidebook with her while walking the streets of Florence. For his travels in France, Henry James relied on Stendhal's Mémoires d'un touriste and John Murray's A handbook for travellers in France. James faithfully visits all the sites enlisted in these guides, and often comments what his learns from their descriptions. Henry James travelogue of France consists of his experience of France. He describes the places and the people he encounters and marvels at the architecture. Travelling in Europe, being almost like an open air museum, modern travellers are very likely to find James descriptions accurate, and many places he visited can still be visited today.On Provence is a nice introduction to the original work, A Little Tour in France. The title is a little bit misleading, as the description is only marginally about the area known as the Provence, and then not even about the heartland of the Provence. Besides, modern readers will mostly associate the Provence with a more quiet lifestyle, thinking more of nature than of architecture. Apparently On Provence is published in a series of "On xx destination". It is also likely that the publisher looked at the original title for the series. The text of A Little Tour in France is available from various Internet sources, but contains mistakes. Thus, in free e-texts the typical French diacrits o are left out of spelling, and the ebook on the Gutenberg project suggests that Alphonse Daudet is the author of a book called Les Aventures Prodigieuses de Taitarin, where it should be Les Aventures Prodigieuses de Tartarin.Some knowledge of the French language would be helpful reading A Little Tour in France or On Provence, as Henry James uses the language freely, and would assume his readers to know French. James regularly refers to a companion or travel companions, but these are never named. In later years Henry James is known to have travelled the French countryside with Edith Wharton, who owned an automobile, but these trips are not included in this early work.On Provence ( A Little Tour in France) is delightful reading, showing Henry James in a quite personal light.