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Book Synopsis The Bostonians (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians was first published in serialized form in The Century Magazine in 1885 and 1886. It was published in book form in London in 1886. A change from Henry James look at Europeans, the novel is a study of the American scene. James had high hopes for its success and was very disappointed with its slow sales. Critics feel it lakes a sympathetic character and that the descriptions of New England life lack spark. Chapters with no dialogue at all test the most diligent of Henry James aficionados. The Bostonians is different from most of James books due to its strong political, rather than social, theme.
Book Synopsis The Reverberator (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Reverberator (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverberator was published in 1888 and was somewhat of a departure for Henry James as it is both lighter and easier to read than some of his other works. It was a short comedic novel, a satire on the manners and ways of Americans as innocents abroad and not the least, the means the media uses to sell newspapers (James based it on a case of irresponsible reporting in Florence). It first appeared in print in Macmillan's Magazine. It came out in book form later the same year in both London and New York. The title name refers to a gossipy newspaper that employs one George Flack, its ambitious reporter in Paris. He wants to see The Reverberator become a large international publication. One of Georgeís friends is pretty Francie Dosson, whom he has designs on himself. Francie, however, soon becomes engaged to Gaston Probert, an American by birth.
Book Synopsis The Ambassadors (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Ambassadors (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambert Strether has arrived in Paris from Woollett, Massachusetts, at the behest of Mrs. Newsome. She is both his fiance and his employer. Strether is an ambassador for America in the sense that Mrs. Newsome wants him to convince her son Chad to return home. She believes that life in Paris, particularly his French mistress, is corrupting him. Lambert, at first at odds with the Paris lifestyle eventually comes to feel that it is right for Chad as he is happier and more civilized than he had been at home.
Book Synopsis The Outcry (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Outcry (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outcry was a play written by Henry James in 1909, near the end of his most productive stage. He had written a number of plays, which had been performed to less than enthusiastic audiences, although they had garnered some critical acclaim. American producer Charles Frohman asked James to write a play for the 1909 London repertory season and he would be one of a group of distinguished writers such as Shaw and Maugham. The play was written but not performed. It was delayed due to the death of King Edward VII and ultimately not performed until after the death of Henry James himself. In the meantime, James decided to transform it into a novel. It was published in 1911 and was the last completed novel to be published before James' death. The plot of The Outcry concerned a group of wealthy Americans who were using their money to buy up British art collections. The play had an overtone of comedy to it, despite the serious veneer. Lord Theign, who has an impressive art gallery of old masters, has been driven into debt by the waywardness of his older daughter, Kitty Imber. He turns to the idea of selling off some of the masterpieces to an American collector, Breckinridge Bender.
Book Synopsis The Awkward Age (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Awkward Age (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Awkward Age was published in 1899. The story, set in contemporary time, revolves around Nanda Brookenham, the daughter of Fernanda. Fernanda, who goes by the name of Mrs. Brook, keeps a fashionable London salon. She has ambitions for her daughter to marry well, and has delayed her daughters debut into society for as long as possible. The title of the novel, The Awkward Age, is open to speculative interpretation as to whose awkward age James is referring to.
Book Synopsis The Golden Bowl (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Golden Bowl (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Bowl was published in novel form in 1904. It was structured in five parts. The novel was included in the New York Edition collection of Henry James' works. James considered the novel to be one of his best works. However, the novel would prove to be the least popular of his three major late novels, although some literary critics do not believe the novel received its due. In The Golden Bowl, Maggie Verver and her widowed father are Americans living in England. At the beginning of the story, Maggie is marries Italian nobleman, Prince Amerigo. Maggie and Amerigo continue to live with Mr. Verver but as time passes her father considers that he himself should marry again.
Book Synopsis The Tragic Muse (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Tragic Muse (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragic Muse ran serially in The Atlantic for seventeen months, from January 1889 until May of 1890. It was one of James' long works, being well over two hundred thousand words. Two stories are interwoven in the plot. The first is of Nick Dormer, who is an attractive and talented young man who wants to be an artist. His family wants him to follow in the family footsteps of politics, securing a seat in Parliament. Nick's late father had made many connections that would help him in a political career. His mother supports this ambition as the family is only of modest fortune and she feels a successful political career would help Nick's two sisters find suitable husbands.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Frout (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Sacred Frout (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fount came immediately before what is considered the period of Henry James' greatest achievement as a writer. In spite of this, The Sacred Fount is one of James' least admired works. Critics at the time lambasted it and that early criticism has not helped its reputation in the over a hundred and ten years since its publication. The novel was published in 1901, by Scribner's in New York and by Methuen in London. It is the only one of James' novels to be narrated in the first person. The narrator is never named.
Book Synopsis The Wings of the Dove (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Wings of the Dove (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroine of The Wings of a Dove is Milly, an extremely rich American girl, who has been left with no living relatives. She spends much of her time with friend and fellow traveler Susan Shepherd Stringham and together they become part of the social circle of Maud Lowder, a friend of Susan's who lives in London. Milly and Susan are not introduced to the readers until the third chapter. The first two chapters are taken up with Kate Croy, who is Mrs. Lowder's niece, and Merton Densher, a journalist whom Kate is in love with.
Book Synopsis The Beast in the Jungle (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Beast in the Jungle (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beast in the Jungle is the story of John Marcher, the protagonist, and May Bartram, a woman he has known in the past. They meet at a luncheon and May remembers that John had been tormented in the past by the idea that he would meet a catastrophic end what this will be he does not know, but he refers to it as the beast in the jungle, metaphorically lying in wait to destroy his life.
Book Synopsis Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short novel, Daisy Miller, is told from a restricted point of view: that is, through the eyes of Winterbourne, a young American who is living in Europe. Winterbourne seems to have little purpose in his life; his purpose in the novel is to allow the reader to get to know Daisy.
Book Synopsis Washington Square (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book Washington Square (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880 Washington Square was published simultaneously in serialized form in both the United States and England. Very quickly it appeared in book form before the end of the year. It is one of James' shorter novels. By the time it was published Henry James was already at work on The Portrait of a Lady and showed no great enthusiasm for Washington Square. He excluded the latter work from his 1908 New York Edition of collected works. The story is told by an omniscient narrator. The story is well structured and relatively straight forward in its style. It is a tale of a young woman restricted by her class and times, who is dominated by her father.
Book Synopsis Madame de Mauves (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book Madame de Mauves (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame de Mauves is a novella written by Henry James in his early period. He himself did not hold the novel in high regard in his later years. It was written when James was still in his twenties and published in the Galaxy periodical in the months of February and March of 1874. In Madame de Mauves James uses for the first time his theme of international relationships. Euphemia Cleve is a young American woman who is beautiful, good, and virtuous. She is married to a French Baron, Richard de Mauves, who is anything but good and virtuous. The story is mainly told through the eyes of a third person, a wealthy American named Longmore. Longmore meets Euphemia through a mutual acquaintance, Mrs. Draper. Mrs. Draper entrusts Longmore with the task of bringing some happiness to Euphemia as she writes to him, Prove to Madame de Mauves that an American friend may mingle admiration and respect better than a French husband.
Book Synopsis The Bostonians (annotated) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians (annotated) written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians, by American-born author Henry James, was first published as a serial in 1885-1886 and then as a full novel in 1886. Henry James wrote in the tradition of realism, a late-19th century movement that was a response to Romanticism and Transcendentalism. On the surface, The Bostonians is about the competition between a Northern feminist, Olive Chancellor, and a Southern conservative, Basil Ransom, to win the attention of a young woman named Verena Tarrant: Olive wants to enlist her in the cause, and Basil wants to make her a traditional wife. However, at its core, The Bostonians is about how post-Civil War America was torn between traditional and modern values. The novel is ambivalent about progress, showing Basil's views as old-fashioned and obsolete, and the feminists' tactics as oppressive, spiteful, and unreasonable. By exploring the inner lives of the characters, the novel comments on the effects of Reconstruction, which sought to ease the Confederate states back into the Union and to rebuild the devastated South. Neither critics nor readers received The Bostonians well, and James did not write another novel focused on political themes. This guide refers to the Penguin Classics edition edited by Richard Lansdown.Basil Ransom is a young Confederate veteran who, when his family loses their fortune after the Civil War, moves to New York City to establish a law practice. Invited to visit the Boston home of his affluent cousin Olive Chancellor, he waits in her parlor and chats with Olive's widowed sister Adeline Luna. Adeline warns Basil, a conservative who prefers passive women, that Olive is a staunch feminist.Olive and Basil go to the home of philanthropist Miss Birdseye, where they hear a speech by a young feminist named Verena Tarrant. The guests are enraptured-most of all Basil. Though he despises the subject of her speech, her beauty mesmerizes him. Olive, also moved, invites Verena to visit her at home. Basil and Verena meet once in Olive's house before Basil returns to New York; he teases her and counters her feminist beliefs.Verena, encouraged by her social-climbing mother, frequently visits Olive, and the two form a partnership to work for women's equality. Olive, who has long sought a close female friendship, greatly enjoys her intimate study time with Verena but is increasingly worried by Verena's flirtations with men. Older and stronger willed than Verena, Olive coerces Verena to promise never to marry. Enthralled with Olive and seeking to impress her, Verena declines proposals from Mr. Matthias Pardon and Mr. Henry Burrage despite secretly wishing to accept. To ensure Verena does not marry, Olive takes her to Europe.In New York, Basil lives in poverty, having failed to grow his law practice or publish his politically themed articles. Mrs. Luna, who has a growing romantic interest in him, has tried to hire him to care for her affairs and to tutor her spoiled son. However, Mrs. Luna's imprecations about Basil not responding to her letters makes him increasingly irritated. One day Mrs. Luna tells him that Verena and Olive are back in America after their European voyage. The news revives Basil's interest in Verena.When Basil finds himself in Boston for business, he avoids Olive but visits Verena at her parents' house. The two walk around Cambridge. Despite his continued derision of the feminist movement, Verena feels a connection with Basil. Though she has never kept a secret from Olive, she decides not tell Olive she has gone out with Basil.When back in New York, Basil receives an invitation to go to Mrs. Burrage's house to see Verena speak. Mrs. Luna interrogates Basil about his relationship with Verena, forcing him to hint that he saw her in Cambridge. As he watches Verena, Basil finds her beauty captivating and can almost ignore......
Book Synopsis The Bostonians- By Henry James(Annotated) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Bostonians- By Henry James(Annotated) written by Henry James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886.
Book Synopsis Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature by : Pia Wiegmink
Download or read book Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature written by Pia Wiegmink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts gives a clear overview of authors and Major Works of Greek and Latin literature, and their history in written tradition, from Late Antiquity until present: papyri, manuscripts, Scholia, early and contemporary authoritative editions, translations and comments.
Book Synopsis The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes by : Michael A. Weinstein
Download or read book The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes written by Michael A. Weinstein and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explication of Holmes's didactic works, including A Mortal Antipathy and Over the Teacups, which substantiates Holmes as a serious writer of the New England Renaissance whose ideology of self-determination as an American value is as relevant to modern society as it was to the agrarian and industrial societies he addressed"--Provided by publisher.
