| Description |
viii, 220 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Dull mustard paper over boards; beige cloth spine printed in brown; dust jacket. |
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First edition, "first printing." |
| Contents |
Early reading and Alphonse Daudet -- Edith Wharton and her New Yorks -- Two ages of Thackeray -- Is George Eliot salvageable? -- Little duke and the great king: Saint-Simon and Louis XIV -- Meredith reassailed -- Proust's picture of society -- Americans in Trollope -- James and Bourget: the artist and the crank -- Novel of manners today: Marquand and O'Hara -- James and the Russian novelists -- Crisis in Newport, August, 1857 (with previously unpublished extracts from the diary of George Templeton Strong) -- A reader's guide to the fiction of Henry James. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. |
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