Henry James

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The Portrait of a Lady (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

There is no better novel that gets the reader right into the complexity of being human and the convolution of life itself than Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. The protagonist's complexity is noticeable from the beginning while the story itself is not just captivating but piously ingraining in its own right. Its vastness of cultural allusions, the shrewdness of its initiating construction and cleverness of assembly is a hallmark of master storytelling. Isabel is free-spirited and concerned about her freedom and driven by the fear of losing it. She is in Europe courtesy of aunt Touchett and her path to marriage is almost guaranteed. However, the inebriating Continent proves to be an intoxicated realm from Paris, Florence to Rome where her doting self-sufficiency misapprehensions come into question while ostensible associates and superficial friends craft a web of intrigues that will forever change her.

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Autor

HENRY JAMES was an American author, who became a naturalized British citizen in 1915. He was born in New York in 1843. The billions of English-speaking people who are familiar with his writings consider him to be the genius of his age, but his fame and influence spread beyond the New World and the Old. Always fascinated by the Old World, and the differences between his home country and Europe, he settled in London in 1869 and established relationships with Macmillian and other publishers. Henry James spent almost three decades of his life in Europe and many of his novels are set there, mostly in England and Italy. In 1875, he moved to Paris for a year, where he met Zola, Maupassant, Turgenev, Alphonse Daudet and many other key figures in France. While living in London, James continued to follow the careers of the 'French realists', Zola in particular, but he was also influenced by George Eliot and Ivan Turgenev. He studied the French writers and became friends with Robert Louis Stevenson, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Gosse and many others who were influenced like him by the French naturalist writers. James pioneered the transition between literary realism and literary modernism in Western literature, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916. His novels have been translated into more than twenty languages and he is considered to be a major figure in English literature. His many works include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove. He died in 1916.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Silvia Licciardello Millepied Res Stupenda
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9791037800411
• Artikelnr.: 58131162