Roderick Hudson

by Henry James

Books mentioned in Roderick Hudson (5)

• Inferno by Dante Alighieri: “So he lent him the Inferno, which he had brought with him, and advised him to look into it.”
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: “I read the Imitation and the Life of Saint Catherine.”
• Corinne by Madame de Stael: “Last winter Mary used to read 'Corinne' to me in the evenings,”
• History of the Italian Republics by J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi: “"It was Sismondi's Italian Republics," said Mary, simply.”
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Nay, he too may be a grotesque phantom, like the black dog in Faust.”