# The Princess Casamassima (Volume 1 of 2)

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69628

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Princess+Casamassima+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The simplest account of the origin of _The Princess Casamassima_ is, I think, that this fiction proceeded quite directly, during the first year of a long residence in London, from the habit and the interest of walking the streets. I walked a great deal—for exercise, for amusement, for acquisition, and above all I always walked home at the evening’s end, when the evening had been spent elsewhere, as happened more often than not; and as to do this was to receive many impressions, so the impressions worked and sought an issue, so the book after a time was born. It is a fact that, as I look back, the attentive exploration of London, the assault directly made by the great city upon an imaginat...

## Chapters

- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-princess-casamassima-volume-1-of-2-69628/chapters/26/index.md)