Henry James The Major Novels

Name: Henry James The Major Novels
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ISBN: 9780521316552

ISBN-10: 0521316553

ISBN-13: 9780521316552

Edition: 1991

Authors: Judith Woolf

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Judith Woolf's elegantly written book introduces school and university students, as well as the interested general reader, to the major novels of Henry James (1843-1916), the American writer who became a great European novelist and died a naturalised Englishman. The principal novels in which James explored his central theme, the betrayal of innocence, are discussed in a lucid way which offers fresh intrepretations and communicates to the non-specialist reader the excitement rather than the difficulty of reading James. Difficulty is nonetheless often a feature of his work, and Judith Woolf does not shun important questions. She places him in the context of the history of the English novel…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/4/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



A brief life of Henry James



Introductory



The Europeans, Washington Square, Daisy Miller



The Portrait of a Lady



The Bostonians



What Maisie Knew



The Awkward Age, The Ambassadors



The Wings of the Dove



The Golden Bowl



Afterword


Selected bibliography