The Wings of the Dove - Brossura

James, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0812972112 ISBN 13: 9780812972115

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2004

Riassunto

An incisive introduction by Amy Bloom, a preface by the author, and new endnotes complement the classic novel of romantic suspense, about a young couple, Kate Croy and her lover, journalist Merton Densher, who plan to extort money from a naive and trusting American heiress who is terminally ill. Reprint.

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Recensione:

""The Wings of the Dove" represents the pinnacle of James's prose." --Louis Auchincloss

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

L'autore:

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York City. He traveled and studied extensively in New York, London, Paris and Geneva, and returned to the States in 1860, enrolling in Harvard Law School two years later. By 1865 he had begun to contribute reviews and short stories to periodicals in earnest. His first major piece of fiction, "Watch and Ward," was serialized inThe Atlantic Monthly in 1870, and Roderick Hudson, his first major novel, was published in 1875. James spent the following decades abroad, first visiting Paris, where he met Ivan Turgenev, Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert, then settling in London, where he lived for over twenty years and wrote several novels, including Washington Square,The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, and The Princess Casamassima. In 1897 he moved to Lamb House in Rye, where he wrote his later novels, includingThe Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, andThe Golden Bowl, and well as his popular ghost story, "The Turn of the Screw." James became a British subject in 1915. Two unfinished novels,The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past, were published as fragments after his death on February 28, 1916.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0812972112
• ISBN 13: 9780812972115
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 741