Exploration & Journeys
Venetian Life
William Dean Howells
2026
10h 20m$1.99
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Lincoln made him consul in Venice so that he could write, and there was almost no consular work to do. Howells spent four years there in the 1860s under Austrian occupation and wrote the city from the inside: the rents, the servants, the churches, the gondoliers, the poverty behind the palace fronts, and the daily life of a place everyone else was busy being poetic about.
Inside this audiobook
22 chapters
- 1Venice in Venice28m
- 2Arrival and First Days in Venice20m
- 3Winter in Venice21m
- 4Comincia Far Caldo23m
- 5Opera and Theatres21m
- 6Venetian Dinners and Diners14m
- 7Housekeeping in Venice48m
- 8The Balcony on the Grand Canal20m
- 9A Day-Break Ramble9m
- 10The Mouse10m
- 11Churches and Pictures27m
- 12Some Islands of the Lagoons30m
- 13The Armenians18m
- 14The Ghetto and the Jews of Venice17m
- 15Some Memorable Places26m
- 16Commerce30m
- 17Venetian Holidays51m
- 18Christmas Holidays18m
- 19Love-making and Marrying; Baptisms and Burials31m
- 20Venetian Traits and Characters45m
- 21Society60m
- 22Our Last Year in Venice52m
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