Venetian Life by W. D. Howells

Venetian Life

W. D. Howells with Joseph Pennell (Illustrator)

317 pages first pub 1866 (editions)

nonfiction classics travel reflective medium-paced
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In 1869 W. D. Howells, in reward for having written a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, was given the job of consul in Venice. For a young nineteenth-century American who had left school when he was nine to earn a living, the hardest part of ...

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