Author, Author: David Lodge - Brossura

Lodge, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143036092 ISBN 13: 9780143036098

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

Riassunto

Set against the colorful backdrop of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, this evocative tale of literary ambition, rivalry, and creativity follows the public career and private life of Henry James, detailing his friendship with George Du Maurier, complex relationship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, and final illness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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L'autore:

David Lodge is the author of twelve novels and a novella, including the Booker Prize finalists Small World and Nice Work. He is also the author of many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel.

Product Description:

A new literary, historical novel from the popular author of Therapy and Thinks. The protagonist is the American novelist Henry James, and the focus is on James's friendship with George Du Maurier, the famous "Punch artist and illustrator, and on his literary middle years - the 1880s. Henry is seriously worried by the declining popularity of his books and decides to try his hand as a playwright. At the same time, George Du Maurier diversifies into writing novels. The consequences for both men are surprising, ironic, comic and tragic by turns. As Du Maurier's Trilby, much 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, 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, triumphs and disappointments of those who live by the pen.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143036092
• ISBN 13: 9780143036098
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400