On the way to Italy, Howells goes up and down Madeira, steps briefly into Spain and ashore at Genoa, hears the joyful noise of Naples and revisits Pompeii. In Rome he writes of hotels and apartments, the Colosseum and the Forum, the Anglo-American quarter by the Spanish Steps, churches, villas, and his struggle to be honest with antiquity.
Gentle, humorous travel essays from the dean of American letters. Download the free EPUB.