Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
University of Pennsylvania Press Ethels LoveLife and Other Writings
Book SynopsisIn a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her correspondent is Ernest, the man to whom she is engaged to be married. Wanting to make him understand how all of her past loves are included and sublimated in her love for him, she especially wants to explain how women often love each other with as much fervor and excitement as they do men; and although this love is curiously freed from all the grosser elements of passion, as it exists between sexes, nevertheless it retains its energy, its abandonment, its flush, its eagerness, its palpitation, and its rapture.Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823-1908), a native of Portland, Maine, and wife of a United States congressman, published Ethel's Love-Life in 1859. The book is sometimes credited as an earlyeven thTrade ReviewThe whole of Sweat’s oeuvre is framed by Looby’s erudite yet accessible introduction...His notes to Sweat’s work are extensive and characteristically rigorous, glossing her complex allusions to classical and canonical literature and art, Scripture, philosophy, mesmerism, Transcendental writing, fellow female writers of her period, then-current and historical events, and her own life. The result is an omnibus introduction to this singular yet also representative queer female author, suitable for the educated layperson, undergraduates, and advanced scholars, opening up many directions to move forward. * American Literary History *Ethel's Love-Life challenges us to try to understand erotic feelings and bodily practices that were understood and socially organized in ways that are now quite alien to us. . . . [It] is a great novel, an extraordinary and compelling literary performance that deserves a new life. * Christopher Looby, from the Introduction *
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Tor Publishing Group The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Book SynopsisTor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow includes an Introduction and Afterword by Charles L. Grant.Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless through the night, terrifying unlucky travellers.Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is fascinated by these stories....Until late one night, walking home through Wiley''s swamp, he finds that maybe they''re not just stories.What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands?
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Random House Publishing Group Tom Jones
Book SynopsisTom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.
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Random House USA Inc The Scarlet Pimpernel
Book SynopsisThe first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792.”
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Random House USA Inc The Wings of the Dove
Book SynopsisSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeSet amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”
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Random House USA Inc Taras Bulba Modern Library Classics Paperback
Book SynopsisThe First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.” And the critic John Cournos has noted, “A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: ‘Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is un
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Random House USA Inc Nada Modern Library Classics
Book SynopsisRenowned as Spain’s The Catcher in the Rye, a passionate coming-of-age novel that follows a rebellious young woman as she uncovers her family’s secrets in chaotic, polarized post–Civil War Barcelona “A work of genius [that recalls] Sartre and Camus, but it is fresher and more vibrant than either.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review Andrea, an eighteen-year-old orphan, moves from her small town to Barcelona to attend university. Living in genteel squalor with her volatile relatives in a mysterious house on Calle de Aribau, Andrea relies on her wealthy, beautiful bohemian friend Ena to prove that normal life exists beyond the gothic dwelling she calls home. In one year, as her innocence melts away, Andrea learns the truth about her overbearing and religious aunt Angustias, her cruelly sensual, musically gifted uncle Román and his violent brother Juan, and her lovely aunt Gloria
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Random House USA Inc The Red Daughter
Book SynopsisRunning from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. “The Red Daughter does exactly what good historical fiction should do: It sends you down the rabbit hole to read and learn more.”—The New York Times Book Review In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle Svetlana into America. She is a contradictory celebrity: charismatic and headstrong, lonely
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Random House Publishing Group The Metamorphosis Modern Library Classics
Book SynopsisTranslated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold’s acclaimed English translation—long hailed as the gold standard b
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Random House USA Inc White Houses
Book SynopsisFor readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • San Francisco Chronicle • New York Public Library • Refinery29 • Real Simple Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, “Hick,” as she’s known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as “first friend” is an open secret, as are FDR’s own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick’s bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life. From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan’s Washington Square, White Houses moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.
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Random House USA Inc Breakfast at Tiffanys Other Voices Other Rooms
Book SynopsisFrom the Modern Library?s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote?also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete StoriesTogether in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote?s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany?s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany?s shares not only the author?s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany?s; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid ?that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.? Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father?who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.
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The University Press of Kentucky The History of Sir George Ellison
Book SynopsisIn this sequel, Scott addresses issues of slavery, marriage, education, law and social justice, class pretensions, and the position of women in society, consistently emphasizing the importance, for both genders and all classes and ages, of devoting one's life to meaningful work.
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The University Press of Kentucky The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy 9
Book SynopsisThe author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century.
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The University Press of Kentucky Henrietta Charlotte Lennox EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisAs an orphan under the care of her selfish aunt who pressures her to convert to Catholicism and enter a loveless marriage, Henrietta learns to live by her wits.
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Rutgers University Press Lamplighter American Women Writers
Book SynopsisThe Lamplighter was the first novel by twenty-seven-year-old Maria Susanna Cummins. It propelled her into a prominence that continued until her early death at the age of thirty-nine. A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of Boston. Rescued by the kindly lamplighter Trueman Flint, she learns to meet life with courage and honesty. The novel touched the hearts, validated the ideals, and assuaged the anxieties of a huge readership, and it remained continuously in print until the 1920s.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the Text The Lamplighter Appendix: The Epigraphs Explanatory Notes
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Ohio State University Press Works Vol I the Scarlet Letter 0001 Centenary
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Ohio State University Press Letters 181343 v 15 Vol XV the Letters 18131843
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Ohio State University Press Letters 184353 v 16 Vol XVI the Letters 18431853
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New York University Press Garland of the Buddhas Past Lives Volume 1 Clay
Book SynopsisA collection of thirty four stories that depict the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths.Trade ReviewIf the theological concepts can be complicated, the language and the stories that illustrate them are simple and direct, full of dramatic incident and studded with metaphors that made the world of old India as palpable and romantic as the Baghdad of the Arabian Nights . . . * Harpers Magazine *
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The University of Alabama Press Down the River Or Practical Lessons Under the
Book SynopsisWritten by a cousin of the better known humorist Johnson Jones Hooper, this work is a lampoon of dueling culture set in south eastern Alabama. The main character is a figure familiar in outline to readers of John Gorman Barr, J J Hooper, Joseph G Baldwin, and other practitioners of what is known as the humor of the Old Southwest.
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The University of Alabama Press Trial Balance The Collected Short Stories of
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Ohio University Press The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Book SynopsisThe son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review“Dunbar’s short stories offered keen insight into American race relations as well as the problems African Americans faced in the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.... He was more proactive and subtle about inserting his own political views than many critics, then and since, have given him credit for.”“One hundred years after the death of Dunbar, he is most remembered for his poem ‘We Wear the Mask,’ evoking the balance required of blacks to survive and prosper in nineteenth-century America. This collection of 103 of Dunbar’s short stories written between 1890 and 1905, including well known pieces and many that have gone out of print, allows readers to see how the first African American writer to enjoy huge success evolved as a writer. This is a valuable collection for readers interested in Dunbar and his place in African American and American literature.“ * Booklist, starred review *“Dunbar’s nuanced strategies are on ample display in this first comprehensive collection of his fiction...The stories in the volume are complicated, entertaining, offensive, and moving.”“What we have been presented with here is a Herculean task of scholarship.”
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EMC/Paradigm Publishing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Access Edition Emc
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
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Duke University Press Franklin Evans or The Inebriate
Book SynopsisTells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theatres, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard.Trade Review“Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler provide a truly state-of-the-art introduction to Walt Whitman’s only novel, a lively and thorough account of the varied contexts that best illuminate the significance of Whitman’s rough and rowdy tale.”—Michael Moon, author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass“Readers interested primarily in the social history of the country will find much here that is compelling. The temperance movement was the first wide-spread social reform movement in the United States, and the novel’s greatest claim to interest from a wider readership comes from what it reveals about that movement. . . . [T]here are also glimpses of the young poet’s developing voice. The novel reveals a belief in the power of words to change the lives and influence the actions of individual readers, most of whom would have come from the working class. Joined with more original language, this conviction would give Leaves of Grass, written a decade later, its passion and force.” -- Kim Roberts * White Crane Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix I. Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate A Tale of the Times 1 II. Supplementary Texts The Madman 117 The Child and the Profligate 123 An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois, On the 22nd Day of February, 1842 135 Bibliography 145
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University of Hawai'i Press The Chrysantheme Papers
Book SynopsisPierre Loti's novel ""Madame Chrysantheme"" (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, 'preposterous' - in short, ripe for exploitation. Presented as the diary of Chrysantheme, this title retells Loti's story.
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Worthy Publishing Up on the Housetop
Book SynopsisA whimsical pairing of lively and colorful illustrations with the lyrics to this classic Christmas song.
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Kregel Publications,U.S. My Dearest Dietrich A Novel of Dietrich
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Spirits of the Earth The Swiss List Seagull
Book SynopsisSwiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel.The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue ch teau, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Hadrian The Seventh New York Review Books
Book SynopsisOne day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. 'The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth,' he declares. 'The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command.'Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession, and anarchic and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics. Fr. Rolfe endured a lifetime of indignities and disappointments. However, in the hilarious and touching pages of this, his finest novel, he triumphs.
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Sun Vision Press Abandoned Fragments
Book SynopsisCollection of Franz Kafka's literary remains up till 1917.
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Trent Editions Our Nig or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
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Dedalus Ltd The Diary of a Chambermaid Decadence from Dedalus
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David Paul Deborah
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Somerville Press We are Besieged
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Turnpike Books The Loughsiders
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Turnpike Books The Wayward Man
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Canongate Books Ane Satyre of The Thrie Estaitis
Book SynopsisEdited and introduced by Roderick Lyall
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WW Norton & Co The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
Book SynopsisA pairing of Tolstoy’s most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov.Trade Review"Over the past hundred years we have had numerous versions, from serviceable to excellent, of the major works. This volume, however, is arguably the best so far..." -- The Times Literary Supplement"...this volume which, for all its sombreness of subject, is a vindication of the human spirit." -- The Spectator
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Huntington Library Press,US David Balfour
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Archipelago Books Life Embitters
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies The Destruction of Jerusalem
Book SynopsisThe events of the destruction of Jerusalem as told through the lens of the languages of the Iberian peninsula. A collection of Catalan and Castilian texts on the destruction of Jerusalem of great interest to scholars of Spanish literature, Hispanic studies and history in general.
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Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd Broadening The Horizon
Book SynopsisThe much-anticipated collection of essays from eight respected academics in the field which brings a number of critical perspectives to focus on the single work of a 21st century Ghanaian writer.
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Pan Macmillan The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Archipelago Books My Struggle Book Five
Book SynopsisThe fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel.
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Academy Chicago Publishers The Old Wives Tale
Book SynopsisA story which traces the fortunes of two sisters over three generations.Trade ReviewThreaded with wry and ironical observations on the Victorian age. -- NYTBR.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Other House 12 New York Review Books
Book SynopsisThis terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew,is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The savage conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James's depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.Oh blest Other House, which gives me thus at every step a precedent, a divine little light to walk by... —Henry James
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Virgin Soil
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