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Fred Kaplan

Henry James

A stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors
Henry James
is an absorbing portrait of one of the most complex and influential nineteenth-century American writers. Fred Kaplan examines James’s brilliant and troubled family—from his brother, a famous psychologist, to his sister, who fought with mental illness—and charts its influence on the development of the artist and his work. The biography includes a fascinating account of James’s life as an American expatriate in Europe, and his friendships with Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad. Compressing a wealth of research into one engrossing and richly detailed volume, Henry James is a compelling exploration of its subject.
1 115 бумажных страниц
Дата публикации оригинала
2013
Год выхода издания
2013
Издательство
Open Road Media
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  • shiraz bukhariцитирует3 месяца назад
    he believed that a vocational orientation for his children would detract from, even subvert, the broad overall opportunity for spontaneous life that the fullest spiritual development demanded.
  • shiraz bukhariцитирует3 месяца назад
    He would have preferred the social and ritual details of some settled, ordinary institutional affiliation. Why couldn’t he go to church, with his family, like everyone else? And, also, why couldn’t his father have a job, like everyone else’s? What was he to respond when playmates asked him what his father did? To the young boy, it seemed that the family lived outside society
  • shiraz bukhariцитирует3 месяца назад
    If Henry junior had an immediate hero, it was his brother William. Less than two years older, William somehow seemed to him superior, partly because of age but also because of energy, sociability, and talent.
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