Henry James The Mature Master
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Henry James The Mature Master
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Author : Sheldon M. Novick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Henry James The Mature Master written by Sheldon M. Novick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The New York Times compared Sheldon M. Novick’s Henry James: The Young Master to “a movie of James’s life, as it unfolds, moment to moment, lending the book a powerful immediacy.” Now, in Henry James: The Mature Master, Novick completes his super, revelatory two-volume account of one of the world’s most gifted and least understood authors, and of a vanished world of aristocrats and commoners. Using hundreds of letters only recently made available and taking a fresh look at primary materials, Novick reveals a man utterly unlike the passive, repressed, and privileged observer painted by other biographers. Henry James is seen anew, as a passionate and engaged man of his times, driven to achieve greatness and fame, drawn to the company of other men, able to write with sensitivity about women as he shared their experiences of love and family responsibility. James, age thirty-eight as the volume begins, basking in the success of his first major novel, The Portrait of a Lady, is a literary lion in danger of being submerged by celebrity. As his finances ebb and flow he turns to the more lucrative world of the stage–with far more success than he has generally been credited with. Ironically, while struggling to excel in the theatre, James writes such prose masterpieces as The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. Through an astonishingly prolific life, James still finds time for profound friendships and intense rivalries. Henry James: The Mature Master features vivid new portraits of James’s famous peers, including Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson; his close and loving siblings Alice and William; and the many compelling young men, among them Hugh Walpole and Howard Sturgis, with whom James exchanges professions of love and among whom he thrives. We see a master converting the materials of an active life into great art. Here, too, as one century ends and another begins, is James’s participation in the public events of his native America and adopted England. As the still-feudal European world is shaken by democracy and as America sees itself endangered by a wave of Jewish and Italian immigrants, a troubled James wrestles with his own racial prejudices and his desire for justice. With the coming of world war all other considerations are set aside, and James enlists in the cause of civilization, leaving his greatest final works unwritten. Hailed as a genius and a warm and charitable man–and derided by enemies as false, effeminate, and self-infatuated–Henry James emerges here as a major and complex figure, a determined and ambitious artist who was planning a new novel even on his deathbed. In Henry James: The Mature Master, he is at last seen in full; along with its predecessor volume, this book is bound to become the definitive biography. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Henry James The Young Master
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Author : Sheldon M. Novick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-27
Henry James The Young Master written by Sheldon M. Novick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity for affection attract both men and women to him. We journey with James through Italy and France, witness his first love affair in Paris, and settle with him in London at the height of Empire in the Victorian Age. We scale the heights of London society with him, and as the world opens to James we share with him the experience of writing a series of celebrated and successful novels, culminating with Washington Square (on which the play The Heiress is based) and his masterpiece The Portrait of a Lady. The Washington Post Book World notes: “It is no small ambition to write a biography of James that is commensurate with that master, and Sheldon Novick has done it.” “Splendidly written . . . Novick has aimed to bring James back to life and he has succeeded brilliantly.” –The Washington Post Book World “Like a movie of James’s life, as it unfold moment to moment.” –The New York Times “Masterful in bringing James and his world to life.” –San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle “Beautifully written, with a grace that enables [Sheldon Novick] to weave his subject’s words in and out of his own with a properly Jamesian suavity . . . Novick’s account gives one a profound respect for James’s persistence and power of will.” –The New Republic NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Henry James
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Author : Sheldon M. Novick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-10-20
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Henry James The Master 1901 1916
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Author : Leon Edel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Henry James The Master 1901 1916 written by Leon Edel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Authors, American categories.
Biography of Henry James, an American-British author.
The Lesson Of The Master
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Author : Henry James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Lesson Of The Master written by Henry James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Fiction categories.
The Lesson Of The Master
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Author : Henry James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
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The Lesson Of The Master
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Author : Henry James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Bonded Leather binding
The Legend Of The Master Henry James
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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The Novels And Stories Of Henry James The Lesson Of The Master The Death Of The Lion The Next Time The Figure In The Carpet The Coxon Fund
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Author : Henry James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
The Novels And Stories Of Henry James The Lesson Of The Master The Death Of The Lion The Next Time The Figure In The Carpet The Coxon Fund written by Henry James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with categories.
Henry James
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Author : William R. Veeder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Henry James written by William R. Veeder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Fiction categories.