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Book Synopsis The Awkward Age (Esprios Classics) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Awkward Age (Esprios Classics) written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in English fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment that adds to the immediacy of the scenes but also creates serious ambiguities about characters and their motives.
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence and the transition to adulthood are difficult periods for most people, but the stakes are even higher when you're a well-born young woman at the center of a complex and morally suspect social circle. That's the dilemma facing young Nanda Brookenham in Henry James' The Awkward Age, a dialogue-driven novel that some critics rank among the writer's most accomplished literary feats.
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awkward Age by Henry James. The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in English fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment that adds to the immediacy of the scenes but also creates serious ambiguities about characters and their motives.Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookenham host an effete, rather corrupt social circle. They are the parents of worthless Harold and sweet but knowledgeable Nanda (age eighteen). Mr. Longdon attends one of their social functions and is amazed at how much Nanda resembles her grandmother, his long-ago love who married another man. Vanderbank, a young civil servant with little money, admires both Mrs. Brookenham (nicknamed "Mrs. Brook") and Nanda. Mrs. Brook seems to want an affair with "Van" but he appears more interested in Nanda. Mr. Longdon promises him a dowry if he marries Nanda.Mrs. Brook is instead trying to get her daughter married to Mitchy, a very rich but rather naive member of her social circle. But Nanda urges Mitchy to marry Aggie, the supposedly sheltered step-niece of one of Mrs. Brook's friends (the Duchess). Mitchy follows the advice, then watches helplessly as Aggie kicks over the traces and starts playing around on him. Van constantly hesitates about proposing to Nanda. She finally tells him and Mitchy to be kind to her mother, then prepares to stay at Mr. Longdon's country home as a kind of surrogate daughter.I recall with perfect ease the idea in which “The Awkward Age” had its origin, but re-perusal gives me pause in respect to naming it. This composition, as it stands, makes, to my vision — and will have made perhaps still more to that of its readers — so considerable a mass beside the germ sunk in it and still possibly distinguishable, that I am half-moved to leave my small secret undivulged. I shall encounter, I think, in the course of this copious commentary, no better example, and none on behalf of which I shall venture to invite more interest, of the quite incalculable tendency of a mere grain of subject-matter to expand and develop and cover the ground when conditions happen to favour it. I say all, surely, when I speak of the thing as planned, in perfect good faith, for brevity, for levity, for simplicity, for jocosity, in fine, and for an accommodating irony. I invoked, for my protection, the spirit of the lightest comedy, but “The Awkward Age” was to belong, in the event, to a group of productions, here re-introduced, which have in common, to their author's eyes, the endearing sign that they asserted in each case an unforeseen principle of growth. They were projected as small things, yet had finally to be provided for as comparative monsters. That is my own title for them, though I should perhaps resent it if applied by another critic — above all in the case of the piece before us, the careful measure of which I have just freshly taken. The result of this consideration has been in the first place to render sharp for me again the interest of the whole process thus illustrated, and in the second quite to place me on unexpectedly good terms with the work itself.
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save when it happened to rain Vanderbank always walked home, but he usually took a hansom when the rain was moderate and adopted the preference of the philosopher when it was heavy. On this occasion he therefore recognised as the servant opened the door a congruity between the weather and the "four-wheeler" that, in the empty street, under the glazed radiance, waited and trickled and blackly glittered. The butler mentioned it as on such a wild night the only thing they could get, and Vanderbank, having replied that it was exactly what would do best, prepared in the doorway to put up his umbrella and dash down to it. At this moment he heard his name pronounced from behind and on turning found himself joined by the elderly fellow guest with whom he had talked after dinner and about whom later on upstairs he had sounded his hostess. It was at present a clear question of how this amiable, this apparently unassertive person should get home-of the possibility of the other cab for which even now one of the footmen, with a whistle to his lips, craned out his head and listened through the storm. Mr. Longdon wondered to Vanderbank if their course might by any chance be the same; which led our young friend immediately to express a readiness to see him safely in any direction that should accommodate him. As the footman's whistle spent itself in vain they got together into the four- wheeler, where at the end of a few moments more Vanderbank became conscious of having proposed his own rooms as a wind-up to their drive. Wouldn't that be a better finish of the evening than just separating in the wet? He liked his new acquaintance, who struck him as in a manner clinging to him, who was staying at an hotel presumably at that hour dismal, and who, confessing with easy humility to a connexion positively timid with a club at which one couldn't have a visitor, accepted his invitation under pressure. Vanderbank, when they arrived, was amused at the air of added extravagance with which he said he would keep the cab: he so clearly enjoyed to that extent the sense of making a night of it.
Book Synopsis The Awkward Age (Coycoy) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Awkward Age (Coycoy) written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence and the transition to adulthood are difficult periods for most people, but the stakes are even higher when you're a well-born young woman at the center of a complex and morally suspect social circle. That's the dilemma facing young Nanda Brookenham in Henry James' The Awkward Age, a dialogue-driven novel that some critics rank among the writer's most accomplished literary feats.Coycoy brings great works of literature from the past centuries, holding the highest standards and reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it. Look for more titles in the Coycoy's collection to build your own and best [email protected]
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookenham host an effete, rather corrupt social circle. They are the parents of worthless Harold and sweet but knowledgeable Nanda (age eighteen). Mr. Longdon attends one of their social functions and is amazed at how much Nanda resembles her grandmother, his long-ago love who married another man. Vanderbank, a young civil servant with little money, admires both Mrs. Brookenham (nicknamed "Mrs. Brook") and Nanda. Mrs. Brook seems to want an affair with "Van" but he appears more interested in Nanda. Mr. Longdon promises him a dowry if he marries Nanda.
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Book Synopsis The Awkward Age by : Henry Henry James
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry Henry James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookenham host an effete, rather corrupt social circle. They are the parents of worthless Harold and sweet but knowledgeable Nanda (age eighteen). Mr. Longdon attends one of their social functions and is amazed at how much Nanda resembles her grandmother, his long-ago love who married another man. Vanderbank, a young civil servant with little money, admires both Mrs. Brookenham (nicknamed "Mrs. Brook") and Nanda. Mrs. Brook seems to want an affair with "Van" but he appears more interested in Nanda. Mr. Longdon promises him a dowry if he marries Nanda. Mrs. Brook is instead trying to get her daughter married to Mitchy, a very rich but rather naive member of her social circle. But Nanda urges Mitchy to marry Aggie, the supposedly sheltered step-niece of one of Mrs. Brook's friends (the Duchess). Mitchy follows the advice, then watches helplessly as Aggie kicks over the traces and starts playing around on him. Van constantly hesitates about proposing to Nanda. She finally tells him and Mitchy to be kind to her mother, then prepares to stay at Mr. Longdon's country home as a kind of surrogate daughter.
Author :Henry James Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781724764324 Total Pages :490 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (643 download)
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awkward Age by Henry James Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Light and ironic in its touch, The Awkward Age nevertheless analyzes the English character with great subtlety. The Awkward Age, which has been much praised for its natural dialogue and the delicacy of feeling it conveys, exemplifies Conrad's remark that James 'is never in deep gloom or in violent sunshine. But he feels deeply and vividly every delicate shade.' We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Awkward Age Volume Ii EasyRead Large Edi by : Henry James
Download or read book Awkward Age Volume Ii EasyRead Large Edi written by Henry James and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing novel of American society girl who appears from the gauche age to maturity. James has portrayed the corruption and debauchery of that society. The ambiguities of characters are presented in persuasive manner. A gripping novel with various surprising twists.
Book Synopsis Awkward Age Volume I EasyRead Comfort Ed by : Henry James
Download or read book Awkward Age Volume I EasyRead Comfort Ed written by Henry James and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing novel of an American society girl that chronicles her life from adolescence to maturity. James has portrayed the corruption and debauchery of that society. The ambiguities of characters are presented in a persuasive manner. A gripping novel with various surprising twists.
Book Synopsis Awkward Age Volume Ii EasyRead Edition by : Henry James
Download or read book Awkward Age Volume Ii EasyRead Edition written by Henry James and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing novel of American society girl who appears from the gauche age to maturity. James has portrayed the corruption and debauchery of that society. The ambiguities of characters are presented in persuasive manner. A gripping novel with various surprising twists.
Author :James Henry Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781543159714 Total Pages :398 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by James Henry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookenham host an effete, rather corrupt social circle. They are the parents of worthless Harold and sweet but knowledgeable Nanda (age eighteen). Mr. Longdon attends one of their social functions and is amazed at how much Nanda resembles her grandmother, his long-ago love who married another man. Vanderbank, a young civil servant with little money, admires both Mrs. Brookenham (nicknamed "Mrs. Brook") and Nanda. Mrs. Brook seems to want an affair with "Van" but he appears more interested in Nanda. Mr. Longdon promises him a dowry if he marries Nanda.
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Awkward Age Volume Ii EasyRead Comfort E by : Henry James
Download or read book Awkward Age Volume Ii EasyRead Comfort E written by Henry James and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing novel of American society girl who appears from the gauche age to maturity. James has portrayed the corruption and debauchery of that society. The ambiguities of characters are presented in persuasive manner. A gripping novel with various surprising twists.
