{"product_id":"venetian-life-w-d-howells-9780810160859","title":"Venetian Life","description":"In 1869 W. D. Howells, in reward for having written a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, was given the job of consul in Venice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor a young nineteenth-century American who had left school when he was nine to earn a living, the hardest part of his sinecure was that he had almost nothing to do. \"I dreaded the easily formed habit of receiving a salary for no service performed,\" he wrote. \"I reminded myself that, soon or late, I must go back to the old fashion of earning money, and that it had better be sooner than later.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVenetian Life\u003c\/i\u003e flows from the enchantment, the magical improbability, of the years Howell spent in that magnificent city dining with the rich, mingling with the humble, and reporting it all with a uniquely American wit and curiosity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. D. Howells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810160854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810160859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marlboro Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.39w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 34","brand":"W. D. Howells","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080644555007,"sku":"9780810160859","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe4e8e6f-396d-4fbb-ba5b-268803b66963.jpg?v=1685487977","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/venetian-life-w-d-howells-9780810160859","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}