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(l969): Minerva Press (l969) Paperback, Octavo, 151pp.. Soft cover. V.Good.

Merlin P, 1/1/1969. Unknown Binding. Good. Hardback book in good condition, but missing dust jacket if issued one.

London: Merlin Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. SHARP. Dustjacket very good. Light sunning to spine of bright, sunflower-yellow jacket. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of cranberry colored cloth-covered boards. 151 pp with appendix, selected bibliography, chronological summary, Translated by John Griffiths. With a preface by André Maurois. The author examines the style, imagery and content of James's various essays in realism, satire, lyricism, symbolism and psychological analysis, while following his continual concern to depict life as we all experience it. Both students and those seeking fuller acquaintance with James's works will find this essay illumnating.

Minerva Press, New York, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. white titles spine; translated by John Cumming; preface by Andre Maurois; "Henry James was a great writer who spent his whole life wandering in a literary limbo between the paradise of European culture and the hell that was the Golden Age of America. He was too sensitive to suffer the vulgarity of an environment inimjcal (as he thought) to the artist; he was also too much of a Bostonian puritan to feel completely at ease in the atmosphere of European realism. For the major part of his life he was uprooted. He admired French novelists, but found them too concerned with the sordid. He found some measure of spiritual comfort with the English aristocracy. The big houses set in extensive grounds, the beautiful young Englishwomen and the writers whom they entertained every weekend played the same part in his life as the Court in the lives of the moralists and poets of seventeenth century France. Like those writers of an… Leer más