Venetian Life
In 1860, W. D. Howells wrote a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln won the presidency, Howells was rewarded with the job of consul in Venice.He arrived there in 1862, aged twenty-five, and lived for three years on the Grand Canal. Howells would use the canal for a morning swim during the warmer months and then, perhaps, go off to his office.For a young nineteenth-century American who had left school at age nine in order to work, the hardest part of his sinecure was that -- no doubt for the first time in his experience -- he had almost nothing to do. I dreaded the easily formed habit of receiving a salary for no service perform…
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Weitere Autoren: Pennell, Joseph (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8101-6085-9
- EAN: 9780810160859
- Produktnummer: 9549084
- Verlag: Northwestern Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 317 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.8 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
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