The Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism (Classics)

James, Henry

ISBN 10: 0140432701 / ISBN 13: 9780140432701

Editore: Penguin Classics, 1988

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• Titolo: The Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism (Classics)
• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140432701
• ISBN 13: 9780140432701
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

Provides an introduction to and a selection from James' writings on individual authors (Flaubert, Turgenev, Hawthorne, Balzac and George Eliot among others) as well as from his Prefaces, and from the general essays which have been so influential in shaping 20th-century views of literature.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.