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Henry James: Novels 1886-1890 (LOA #43)

The Princess Casamassima / The Reverberator / The Tragic Muse

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Library of America Complete Novels of Henry James
Henry James: Novels 1886-1890 (LOA #43)
Henry James: Novels 1886-1890 (LOA #43)
  • Forfatter: Henry James
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 1312
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Library of America Complete Novels of Henry James
  • EAN: 9780940450561
  • Utgivelsesår: 1989
  • Bidragsyter: James, Henry
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The three novels in this Library of America volume from Henry James’s middle period explore some historical and social dilemmas that belong as much to our time as to his own. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of the unemployed in London. It is a political novel in which anarchists and terrorists conspire within a fin de siècle world of opulence and glamour. The action ranges from palaces to slums, from London to Paris to Venice and back again. The novel’s hero, Hyacinth Robinson, is torn between his loyalty to revolutionary causes—for which he is about to commit an act of violence that may cost him his life—and his taste for the artistic side of aristocratic culture, represented in part by the beautiful, wealthy, compassionate, and yet deceptive Princess of the title. Possibly to save Hyacinth, she becomes romantically involved with his fellow conspirator Paul Muniment, a calculating po