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"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.".
"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.
In 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.".
"What Maisie Knew (1897) explores with perception and sensitivity the effect upon a young girl of her parents' bitter divorce and their subsequent remarriages.
In 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.
Both of these novels insightfully explore the ambiguity of childhood "innocence" amid adult struggles over money, power, and love."--BOOK JACKET.
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Manners and customs, Fiction, Rich people, Domestic fiction, Violence, Children of divorced parents, Suspense fiction, Young women, Mothers and daughters, Short stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, American fiction, Literature, Modern Literature, Roman américain, Littérature, General, Mœurs et coutumes, Romans, nouvelles, American literature, Littérature américaine, American AuthorsShowing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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Novels, 1886-1890
1989, Literary Classics of the United States, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, Library of America, The
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