The Sacred Fount
Author : Henry James
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File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Man-woman relationships
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Author : Henry James
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Man-woman relationships
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
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ISBN : 9780344272547
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Author : Sheridan Hay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000738808X
A stunning debut from a Australian writer – the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931082884
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.
Author : Henry James
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691129549
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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.
Author : Richard P. Blackmur
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811208635
"A bibliographical note: Blackmur's essays on Henry James": p. 243-244. Includes index.
Author : T. J. Lustig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521131599
The importance of ghosts, and liminal experience in general, in the fiction of Henry James.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780940450301
Tells the stories of a fortune hunter, an American heiress living in Europe, and a naive young woman torn between love and idealism.