The Aspern Papers and Other Tales
$32.54
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
A wonderful new collection of Henry James’s short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra
This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James’s short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In ‘The Aspern Papers’, a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet’s papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost. ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, ‘The Lesson of the Master’ and ‘The Figure in the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141389790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141389796 |
| Author: | Henry James, Michael Gorra |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Henry James
Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.
Michael Gorra is Professor of English at Smith College and the author of Portrait of a Novel- Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012), a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography.
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