Colm Tóibín's novel follows the life of Henry James during the last five years of the 19th century. Tóibín tells the story of the great novelist obliquely by concentrating on events, both big and small, that had a large impact, such as the devastating failure of his play GUY DOMVILLE, his guilt over the suicide of a woman who loved him (and whom ...
Wishing to see what lay beyond the bounds of the "celestial city", Henry James devoted much of the Autumn of 1882 to his tour of France. Beginning at Tours, the birthplace of Balzac, he went on various excursions to the great chateaux of the Loire - including Blois, Chambord and Chenonceaux. Then he made his leisurely way south to the heart of the ...
"A good up-to-date one-volume life of Henry James was long overdue; Fred Kaplan ...has done the job splendidly with Henry James: The Imagination of Genius ...Here, at last, is a thoughtful, balanced book to give us a consistent and persuasive account of the writer's life and his development as an author."--Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book ...
What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Grounded in gay theory and politics and offering new paradigms for them, Sedgwick's book explores the consequences for our culture of a radical shift in turn-of-the-century Euro-American discourse: the moment when each person, in addition to having a gender based on the male/female dichotomy, ...
This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun's invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. 8-page b&w photo insert.
A warmly sympathetic biography of Henry James--"the Master"--that emphasizes his devotion to his art, analyzes the pains of his childhood, and acknowledges his intense desire for privacy.
"For other novelists the value of Henry James's "Notebooks" is immense and to brood other them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."--V. S. Pritchett, " New Statesman" "The "Notebooks" take us ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
In 1908, an Austrian psychiatrist visits southern England at the urgent request of a Boston colleague, who fears his brothers intention to rewrite his early novels may be the sign of debilitating neuroses. Over ten days, the worlds of psychology and literature collide.
Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. "Frost" follows an unnamed young Austrian who ...
With this follow-up to "Henry James: The Young Master," Novick completes his revelatory two-volume account of one of the world's most gifted and least understood authors. Henry James i seen anew, as a passsionate and engaged man of his times, driven to achieve greatness and fame.
Henry James, Sr.'s children included William, the psychologist and philosopher; Henry Jr., the novelist; and Alice, author of a noted diary. What kind of father stood behind his epochally brilliant, original, energetic, and often troubled progeny? A noted writer himself, whose friends included the leading American thinkers of his time, James was a ...
"The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher's say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end...." The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read and respected American authors of the nineteenth century. ...
Henry James' reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year - 1875 to 1876 - when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. As Peter Brooks skillfully recounts, ...
Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar. James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greatest self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Mr. Edel, respecting James's view that only the best of a writer's letters deserve ...
James's biographer and a leading James scholar provide the definitive edition of the writer's notebooks, which were discovered among his papers by Edel in 1937. Of the material here assembled, much was previously unpublished, including pocket diaries and dictated notes.
On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, with a combined 60,000 pounds of man, machine, and material, he approached a curve along the Great River Road and hit the brakes. The tractor-trailer didn't slow. Harper's brake lines had been cut. In ...
James's essays on Italy are remarkable for their humanity. Traveling extensively throughout the country, including Venice, Rome, and Florence, he presents a portrait of a beautiful but impoverished country and, while he appreciated the beauty of the art, the ancient architecture, and the landscape, he never was able to forget the dire situation of ...
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