The Aspern Papers And Other Tales 1884 1888

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James
ISBN 13 : 1107029643
Total Pages : 899 pages
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Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-1888 written by Henry James and published by Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including 'The Aspern Papers' and 'The Liar'.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014138980X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Tales written by Henry James and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet's papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost. 'The Author of Beltraffio', 'The Lesson of the Master' and 'The Figure in the Carpet' all focus on naive young men's unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In 'The Middle Years', a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own potential, while 'The Real Thing' and 'Greville Fane' both explore the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best. Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Michael Gorra is Professor of English at Smith College and the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012), a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009072285
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888 written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The nine tales in this volume, published between 1884 and 1888, include 'The Aspern Papers', set in Venice and featuring a devious scholar attempting to steal the letters of an American poet from his former lover, and 'The Liar,' on the world of painters and their models. These tales exemplify James's continuing interest in the art of short fiction during a period which saw him responding to the stimulations of French naturalism and successfully reworking the international theme that had made him famous at the end of the 1870s. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the tales' historical, cultural and literary references.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108299881
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling ... the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009072277
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington Square written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009488341
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prefaces written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108857051
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Casamassima written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in three volumes in 1886, The Princess Casamassima follows Hyacinth Robinson, a young London craftsman who carries the stigma of his illegitimate birth, and his French mother's murder of his patrician English father. Deeply impressed by the poverty around him, he is driven to association with political dissidents and anarchists including the charismatic Princess Casamassima - who embodies the problems of personal and political loyalty by which Hyacinth is progressively torn apart. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.

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Total Pages : 902 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004529152
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book An American Painter in Venice written by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922), of the Boston family who bought the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1885. After graduating at Harvard, Curtis moved to Paris to study art with Carolus Duran, where he met his distant cousin John S. Sargent, with whom he travelled to Holland to see Franz Hals’s paintings. He exhibited at the Paris salons, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, at the Venice Biennale in the 1880s. At Palazzo Barbaro he met Robert Browning, Henry James, but also Venetian painters such as Ettore Tito and Antonio Mancini. He travelled widely, even to Japan and India. His works are in American Museums and private collections.