A Little Tour in France (Esprios Classics)

A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by American writer Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883-1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France including Tours Bourges Nantes Toulouse Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second extensively revised edition was published in 1900. James gives the idea for the book in the first paragraph of the first installment of the original magazine serial: France may be Paris but Paris is not France. He conceived the book as a description of and even homage to the provinces. James had tried living in Paris before settling in London in 1876.