The Bostonians

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Penguin, 01/03/2001 - 480 páginas
‘There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death’

 

Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her to a meeting on the subject of women’s emancipation. One of the speakers is Verena Tarrant, and although he disapproves of all she claims to stand for, Basil is immediately captivated by her and sets about ‘reforming’ her with his traditional views. But Olive has already made Verena her protégée, and soon a battle is under way for exclusive possession of her heart and mind. The Bostonians is one of James’s most provocative and astute portrayals of a world caught between old values and the lure of progress.

Richard Lansdown’s introduction discusses The Bostonians as James’s most successful political work and his funniest novel. This edition contains extracts from Tocqueville and from James’s ‘The American Scene’, which illuminate the novel’s social context. There are also notes and a bibliography.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

 

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INTRODUCTION
vii
FURTHER READING
xxxi
A HENRY JAMES CHRONOLOGY
xxxvii
NOTE ON THE TEXT
xli
THE BOSTONIANS
1
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
351
Alexis de Tocqueville What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear
354
Henry James The American Scene
359
NOTES
379
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Passagens conhecidas

Página i - being Roderick Hudson (1875). Other titles include The Europeans, Washington Square. The Portrait of a Lady. The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima. The Tragic Muse. The Spoils ofPoynton. The Awkward Age. The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl‎
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Acerca do autor (2001)

Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines.

In 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).

During his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloThe Bostonians
Classics Series
Penguin classics
AutorHenry James
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão, revista
EditoraPenguin, 2001
ISBN0140437665, 9780140437669
Número de páginas480 páginas
  
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