The Golden Bowl
$25.91
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2009
Summary
New edition of this classic novel, edited by Philip Horne and Ruth Yeazell.
This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is “a work unique among all James’s novels: it is his only novel in which things come out right for his characters …he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America-and he could now collect and unify th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441276 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141441275 |
| Author: | Henry James, Ruth Yeazell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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‘One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written’ - A. N. Wilson’A wonderfully luminous drama’ - Gore Vidal
‘One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written’ - A. N. Wilson ‘A wonderfully luminous drama’ - Gore Vidal
Henry James
Henry James
Born in 1843 in New York, Henry James was a novelist of Scottish and Irish descent. After studying in New York and Europe, he briefly pursued a career in law before turning to writing in 1865. His time in Paris afforded him acquaintance with literary figures such as Flaubert and Turgenev. He subsequently lived in London and later in Sussex.
Philip Horne
Philip Horne is a Reader in English at UCL. He authored Henry James: A Life in Letters and serves as series editor for several of Penguin Classics’ Henry James novels.
Ruth Yeazell
Ruth Yeazell is the Chase Professor of English at Yale University.
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