Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner - Henry James Zweedse literatuur of zelfs maar in het

of zelfs maar in het dorp of de stad waar ze ooit kinderen waren

Maar niet zonder slag of stoot

zijn maar liefst achttien hoogtepunten opgenomen

tevens de meest welbespraakte ‘verdediging van de literatuur’ die in onze eeuw is geschreven

Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner - Henry James Zweedse literatuur of zelfs maar in hetSurrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, when he wrote his novel The Wings of the Dove. Gardner was to recreate a larger than life version of Palazzo Barbaro in Boston, which is now the