Daisy Miller and Washington Square
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Openbook Publishing |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2011-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781448018383 |
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Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Openbook Publishing |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2011-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781448018383 |
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2011-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 155111030X |
Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486114112 |
A wealthy spinster receives a proposal from a dashing suitor and her father threatens her with disinheritance if she accepts. James masterfully explores the moral consequences of a tender heart's ruthless manipulation.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Chancellor Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 893 |
Release | : 2002-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780753705261 |
Henry James looked at his society-its rules and foibles-with a sharp, unsparing eye. Shifting from America to Europe, the new world and the old, he saw how rigid conventions could destroy lives and happiness. Five of James's classic, richly textured novels, in their entirety, present a cast of indelible characters and events: Daisy Miller, the tragic tale of an innocent young American girl in Rome; Washington Square, set in the heartless upper crust of James's native New York; The Portrait of a Lady, the master craftsman's acknowledged masterpiece; The Bostonians, a tart, high comedy about marriage and nascent feminism; and The Aspern Papers, about an editor's desperate attempts to get hold of letters by a romantic poet to his mistress--who has no intention of giving them up.
Author | : David Lodge |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446485854 |
In David Lodge's last novel, Thinks... the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author surrounded by his relatives and servants, most of whom have private anxieties of their own, then loops back to the 1880s, to chart the course of Henry's 'middle years', focusing particularly on his friendship with the genial Punch artist and illustrator, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but chaste relationship with the American writer Constance Fenimore Woolson. By the end of the decade Henry is seriously worried by the failure of his books to 'sell', and decides to try and achieve fame and fortune as a playwright, at the same time that George Du Maurier, whose sight is failing, diversifies into writing novels. The consequences, for both men, are surprising, ironic, comic and tragic by turns, reaching a climax in the years 1894-5. As Du Maurier's Trilby, to the bewilderment of its author himself, becomes the bestseller of the century, Henry anxiously awaits the first night of his make-or-break play, Guy Domville ... Thronged with vividly drawn characters, some of them with famous names, others recovered from obscurity, Author, Author presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, which in many ways foreshadowed today's cultural mix of art, commerce and publicity. But it is essentially a novel about authorship - about the obsessions, hopes, dreams, triumphs and disappointments, of those who live by the pen - with, at its centre, an exquisite characterisation of one writer, rendered with remarkable empathy.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : Chancellor Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 893 |
Release | : 2004-06-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781402718885 |
Henry James looked at society’s rules and foibles with a sharp, critical eye. Shifting from America to Europe, the New World and the Old, he saw how rigid conventions could destroy lives and happiness. His views come to life in 5 of his classic, richly textured novels included here: Daisy Miller, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, and The Aspern Papers.