This comprehensive account of the writing life of Henry James aims at providing a critical overview of all his important writings, firmly set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time. After paying particular attention to James's American upbringing and literary background, and to the role of Romanticism in his development, it examines the middle period of his writing - from The Portrait of a Lady to The Tragic Muse - to bring out the Victorian and, indeed, European aspects of this crucial period of his career. Under the chapter heading 'Crisis and Experiment', it follows the decade of the 1890s during which James's radical experimentation with genre and style, allied to his sense of personal crisis, led his writing - in such novels as The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew - towards the full flowering of his Modernist period at the very turn of the century. A final chapter on James as 'Master and Modernist' gives full weight to his masterpieces, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, and also to the extraordinary vitality and continuing innovation of his non-fictional writing up till his death in 1916.

Henry James: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Kenneth Graham

Arts & Literature

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This comprehensive account of the writing life of Henry James aims at providing a critical overview of all his important writings, firmly set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England, and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time. By tracing the complex development of his career under such headings as 'American and Romantic', 'Victorian and Realist', 'Crisis and Experiment' and 'Master and Modernist', it gives a dynamic portrait, both factual and interpretative, of one of the greatest and most prolific novelists in the language, whose many-sided career began in the time of Thackeray and Dickens, and ended by ushering in the writings of Joyce and Woolf.

Henry James: A Literary Life (Macmillan Literary Lives)

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

The Wind In The Willows

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The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

The Wind in the Willows (Great Illustrated Classics)

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Kenneth Grahame's exuberant yet whimsical The Wind in the Willows belongs to the golden age of children's classic novels. These charming, exciting and humorous tales of the riverbank and its life featuring the wonderfully imagined Ratty, Mole, Badger and the irrepressible but conceited Toad of Toad Hall - whose passion for motor cars ("The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow") lands him in many scrapes - still continue exert their charm over adults as well as children.Leatherbound classics edition

The Wind in the Willows

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Wind in the willows

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