The Ivory Tower
$40.91
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2006
Summary
In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America’s Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction—in which American “innocence” is transformed by its encounter with European “experience”—receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590170786 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590170784 |
| Author: | Henry James, Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics Review
“Late, piercing, morally incisive look at the unscrupulous rich.” —The Guardian
“In The Ivory Tower, James was still experimenting with the impressions of his American tour….There is a vivid sense conveyed of the bright sea and summer air and the great, crazy, overdecorated “villas,” but the keenest impression is of the various people that the hero meets….The effect is as remarkable as anything that James ever achieved.” —Louis Auchincloss
“James’s last novel…denounced, with all the delicacy and subtlety of his style, the world he had seen, at Biltmore, at Lenox, in the great houses of New York and Newport. He had reclaimed his American heritage, but he seems to have felt it wasn’t worth reclaiming. “You seem all here so hideously rich,” says his hero. [The Ivory Tower is] a dense and powerfully conceived work.” —Leon Edel
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James (1843-1916) was the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest American writers. Born in New York, he lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Wings of the Dove. New York Review Classics has published several long-unavailable James novels, including The Other House, The Outcry, and The Ivory Tower.
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, as well as a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst’s fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.
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