books.google.com - In September 1879, James McNeill Whistler boarded the Venice-bound night train in Paris. He was forty-five years old and bankrupt. What was to be a three-month stay in the Italian city--long enough to complete a set of twelve etchings--stretched to fourteen months. When Whistler returned to London, he...http://books.google.com/books/about/Palaces_in_the_night.html?id=iv1sg4RZTJMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePalaces in the night
