Features Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel, will courageously resist the glittering Parliamentary career desired for him by his family, in order to paint. His progress is counterpointed by the 'Tragic Muse' of the title, Miriam Rooth, a great actress indifferent to social reputation, and dedicated to her art.
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Hyacint Robinson, un modesto encuadernador del Soho londinense, participa de una conjura revolucionaria, y conoce a una princesa napolitana de irresistible atractivo que está dispuesta a renunciar a todo para ponerse al servicio de la causa de los desheredados. A partir de esta situación se desarrolla una intriga magistral, con toda la penetración psicológica y las ambiguas sutilezas propias del escritor. La princesa Casamassima es una incomparable representación de las condiciones espirituales de nuestra civilización. James tuvo “la intuición del desastre” y es por eso que tiene un interés esencial para nosotros: pero justamente con la intuición del desastre tuvo también lo que esa intuición a menudo destruye: la intuición del amor. Constituye, junto con Las bostonianas (1885) y La musa trágica (1890), la parte central de un tríptico novelesco que James dedicó a cuestiones sociales. De las tres, es La princesa Casamassima la que encara un tema más audaz, como para sobresaltar a los habituales lectores del novelista: una historia centrada en las clases bajas londinenses, de conjurados que quieren subvertir el orden establecido a través de la violencia…
A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and the new, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama a fable which in the later version printed here takes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. - ;`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintr--eacute--;, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for Claire's hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of the family, an elder brother and their formidable mother, the old Marquise. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and the new, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama a fable which in the later version printed here takes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. -
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This collection features some of Henry James's finest short works. The stories range in subject from marriage and money to artistic criticism and moral dilemmas. James's unique style of psychological realism is on full display in these masterful tales.
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