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Title: The Bostonians By: Henry James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 396 Vendor: Penguin Classics | Dimensions: 7.75 X 5.04 X 0.86 (inches) Weight: 12 ounces ISBN: 0140437665 ISBN-13: 9780140437669 Stock No: WW437665 |
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 womens 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 Jamess most provocative and astute portrayals of a world caught between old values and the lure of progress.
Richard Lansdowns introduction discusses The Bostonians as Jamess most successful political work and his funniest novel. This edition contains extracts from Tocqueville and from Jamess The American Scene, which illuminate the novels social context. There are also notes and a bibliography.
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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.
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