After nearly a quarter of a century abroad, James came home in 1904 and recorded his impressions of a transformed country: New England in autumn, New York’s skyscrapers and the Bowery, the villas of Newport, then Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and the South. His observations on immigrants and race reflect the attitudes of his class and time.
Late James at his most intricate, a profound and sometimes uncomfortable meditation on American modernity. Download the free EPUB.