<DIV><p>The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city - particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, the selection of letters in <I>Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro</I> covers the period 1869-1907 and provides a unique record of the life and work of this great writer. This volume includes historical photographs and a foreword by Leon Edel, Henry James's biographer.<p><p>The novelist <B>Henry James</B> (1843-1916) is one of the most prominent figures of American and British Literature. Son of a clergyman, and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, he moved between America and Europe during his early life, eventually settling in England at the age of twenty. A prolific novelist, essayist and literary critic, James was much concerned with questions of identity, belonging, creativity and consciousness. He is perhaps most famous for his novels <I>The Bostonians</I>, <I>The Portrait of a Lady</I>, <I>Daisy Miller</I> and <I>What Maisie Knew</I>, and for his ghost story, <I>The Turn of the Screw</I>. Between 1906 and 1910, James revised much of his fiction for the so-called New York Edition of his complete works, adding now-famous <I>Prefaces</I>. In 1915, prompted by the First World War, he became a British citizen; he received the Order of Merit in 1916, shortly before his death.<p></DIV>