Howells served as American consul in Venice during the Civil War and here describes the city as he lived in it rather than as tourists see it: arriving and settling in, the damp cold of winter, the coming of summer, opera and puppet theatres, dinners and diners, housekeeping and servants, the balcony over the Grand Canal, daybreak rambles, holidays, churches and the history of Venetian commerce.
The book that launched Howells’s career, still one of the best portraits of everyday Venice. Download the free EPUB.