Author: | Henry James |
ISBN13: | 978-0199555437 |
Title: | The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World's Classics) |
Format: | mobi txt lrf rtf |
ePUB size: | 1972 kb |
FB2 size: | 1119 kb |
DJVU size: | 1283 kb |
Language: | English |
Category: | Mystery |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (August 31, 2009) |
Pages: | 592 |
Book Jacket Status: Jacketed). Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. The density of the prose isn't Henry James trying to be difficult. This is an author (probably in many conversations and correspondences with his brother, the great psychologist William James) determined to express the very complicated psychology of complex human beings, a psychology that steps forward and backward and sideways.
Henry James (1843-1916), son of Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. Some have remarked that the books of James's later period (to which The Wings of the Dove belongs) are more obscure and harder to read than his earlier books but I disagree. I don't think The Wings of the Dove is any more difficult to read and understand than A Portrait of a Lady (a novel of his 'social' period) and it is (for me at least ) far more rewarding. 6 people found this helpful.
Category: Classics, Literature & Fiction, United States, Literary. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks on her European adventure, warming to the admiration of her new friends Kate Croy and Merton Densher.
Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics) Tandem Library, School & Library Binding, 1999. The Wings of the Dove Blackstone Audiobooks, Audio Cassette, 1999. The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford University Press, USA, Paperback, 1998. The Wings of the Dove (The Novels and Tales of Henry James, Part 2) Augustus M Kelley Pubs, Hardcover, 1969. The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naivet� of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair.
Oxford: Clarendon Press and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Matthiessen, F. O. The James Family. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Henry James and John Hay: The Record of a Friendship. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1965. Moore, Harry T. Henry James. bi Brompton Oratory, a Roman Catholic church offering informal services; opened in 1884. Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. Series: ) Thank you for reading books on BookFrom.
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For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill.
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