Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Sacred Fount
Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Sacred Fount
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344272547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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The Secret of Lost Things
Author: Sheridan HayPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000738808X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A stunning debut from a Australian writer – the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop.
Henry James: Novels 1901-1902 (LOA #162)
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9781931082884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
This Library of America volume brings together one of Henry James’s most unusual experiments and one of his most beloved masterpieces Writing to his friend William Dean Howells, Henry James characterized his experimental novel, The Sacred Fount, as the only one of his novels to be told in the first person, as “a fine flight into the high fantastic.” While traveling to the country house of Newmarch for a weekend party, the nameless narrator becomes obsessed with the idea that a person may become younger or cleverer by tapping the “sacred fount” of another person. Convinced that Grace Brissenden has become younger by drawing upon her husband, Guy, the narrator seeks to discover the source of the newfound wit of Gilbert Long, previously “a fine piece of human furniture.” His perplexing and ambiguous quest, and the varying reactions it provokes from the other guests, calls into question the imaginative inquiry central to James’s art of the novel. James described the essential idea of The Wings of the Dove as “a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world.” The heroine, a wealthy young American heiress, Milly Theale (inspired by James’s beloved cousin Minny Temple), is slowly drawn into a trap set for her by the English adventuress Kate Croy and her lover, the journalist Morton Densher. The unexpected outcome of their mercenary scheme provides the resolution to a tragic story of love and betrayal, innocence and experience that has long been acknowledged as one of James’s supreme achievements as a novelist. This volume prints the New York Edition text of The Wings of the Dove, and includes the illuminating preface James wrote for that edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Sacred Fount
Author: Henry James Henry James Goes to Paris
Author: Peter BrooksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691129549
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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What Maisie Knew
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
After her parents� bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie � solitary, observant and wise beyond her years � is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society. Part of a relaunch of three James titles.
Henry James and the Ghostly
Author: T. J. LustigPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521131599
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The importance of ghosts, and liminal experience in general, in the fiction of Henry James.
The Wings of the Dove
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
Young Londoners Kate and Merton are engaged, but have no money to marry on. When the wealthy but terminally ill American heiress Milly arrives in London, Kate schemes for a way to inherit her fortune. But when Kate achieves all she had hoped for, she finds that the money and the gentle, beautiful Milly have changed everything.
Studies in Henry James
Author: Richard P. BlackmurPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.