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100 1 $aJames, Henry,$d1843-1916.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78091982
240 10 $aNovels.$kSelections$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83003598
245 10 $aNovels, 1896-1899 /$cHenry James.
260 $aNew York :$bLibrary of America,$c[2003], ©2003.
263 $a0303
300 $a1035 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLibrary of America ;$v139
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tThe Other House -- $tThe Spoils of Poynton -- $tWhat Maisie Knew -- $tThe Awkward Age.
520 1 $a"This volume collects four novels written by Henry James in the period immediately following his unsuccessful five-year-long attempt to establish himself as a playwright on the London stage.".
520 8 $a"His continued interest in dramatic form is demonstrated in The Other House (1896), which was derived from the scenario for a three-act play. Set in two neighboring houses and told mostly through dialogue, the novel explores the violent and tragic consequences of jealousy and frustrated passion.
520 8 $aIn The Spoils of Poynton (1897), one of the most tightly constructed of James's late novels, a house and its exquisite antique furnishings and artwork become the source of a protracted struggle involving the proud and imperious Mrs. Gereth, her amiable son, Owen, his philistine fiancee, Mona Brigstock, and the sensitive Fleda Vetch, whose moral judgment is tested by her conflicting allegiances.".
520 8 $a"What Maisie Knew (1897) explores with perception and sensitivity the effect upon a young girl of her parents' bitter divorce and their subsequent remarriages.
520 8 $aIn writing the novel James chose as his point of view what he described as "the consciousness, the dim, sweet, scared, wondering, clinging perception of the child." The Awkward Age (1899) examines the complicated relations among the members of a sophisticated London social circle almost entirely through dialogue as it depicts the shifting marital prospects of a young woman poised on the verge of adult life.
520 8 $aBoth of these novels insightfully explore the ambiguity of childhood "innocence" amid adult struggles over money, power, and love."--BOOK JACKET.
830 0 $aLibrary of America ;$v139.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42015308
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