Henry James: Novels 1896-1899 (Library of America)
Автор:Henry James Год: 2003 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 1020 ISBN: 1931082308 Book DescriptionThis fourth volume in the Library of America edition of the complete novels of Henry James contains the four novels he wrote after a failed attempt to forge a career as a playwright on the London stage. Together they mark the beginning ofthe brilliant period in the novelist's career known as the late phase. The Other House (1896) shows James incorporating an act of murder into the heart of his narrative. Long neglected, the novel is a fascinating glimpse into a very different side of Henry James, as he explores the violent implications of jealousy and possessiveness. In The Spoils of Poynton (1897), the artworks conserved in the manor house of the title become the object of a protracted power struggle between the mother and the fiancee of the heir to the house. The struggle, in this most tightly constructed of James's late novels, hinges ultimately on the sensitivities of a third woman. What Maisie Knew (1897) recounts the aftermath of a divorce...
