A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring
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 focussing 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 Carpet' all focus on naive young
men's unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In 'The
Middle Years', a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own
potential, while 'The Real Thing' and 'Greville Fane' both explore
the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables
of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best.
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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