Download or read book The Bostonians Vol 1 of 2 written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bostonians, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn't tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn't know whether she is or not, and she wouldn't for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don't know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate." These words were spoken with much volubility by a fair, plump, smiling woman who entered a narrow drawing-room in which a visitor, kept waiting for a few moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her last remark, "You imply that you do tell fibs. Perhaps that is one." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Bostonians Vol II 1886 written by Henry James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book The Bostonians vol I and Vol II written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young prot�g�e of Olive's in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics. Unlike much of James' work, The Bostonians deals with explicitly political themes: feminism and the general role of women in society. James was at best ambivalent about the feminist movement, and the early chapters harshly satirise Olive and her fellow ideologues. Another theme in the book, much discussed recently, is Olive's possible lesbian attraction to Verena. (The term Boston marriage, apparently first used here by James, came to connote just such an ambiguous co-habiting long-term relationship between two women.) James is not explicit here, partially due to the conventions of the time. But this vagueness may actually enrich the novel because it creates possible ambiguity about Olive's motives. As Ransom gets closer to winning Verena, he seems to lose at least some of his creator's sympathy. James was rather suspicious of the winners in life who scoop up all the goodies, especially the sexual goodies. He becomes more sympathetic to Olive in the later chapters as she begins to lose Verena. This is especially evident in chapter 39, where Olive experiences a painful recognition of her situation somewhat similar to Isabel Archer's long nighttime meditation in chapter 42 of The Portrait of a Lady. The three central characters are surrounded by a vivid supporting cast of would-be reformers, cynical journalists, and sometimes sinister hangers-on. James shows remarkable ability to create a broad cross-section of American society, which helps refute the charge that he could only handle small, closed-off bits of life. The title refers, not to the people of Boston in general, but to the two characters Olive and Verena, "as they appeared to the mind of Ransom, the southerner, and outsider, looking at them from New York." (wikipedia.org)

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Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of his finest works, Henry James' ‘The Bostonians’ (1886) is a brilliant satire about the women’s rights movement in America. Verena Tarrant is an inspirational feminist speaker, but her two disparate cousins are at loggerheads as they seek to control her future. Boston feminist Olive Chancellor hopes to turn Verena into a famous activist, while Basil Ransom, a southern lawyer, hopes to win Verena’s heart. Fans of ́The Bostonians ́ might want to watch the movie adaptation from 1984, starring Christopher Reeve and Vanessa Redgrave. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born British author, and one of the founders of the school of realism in fiction. His inventive use of interior monologues and unreliable narrators brought complexity and depth to his work, making him hugely popular. A prolific writer, he published numerous novels, articles, travel books, biographies and plays. Among his best-known works are ‘Daisy Miller’ (1879), ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1881), and ‘The Bostonians’ (1886). Many of his stories have been adapted for TV and film, but it is his celebrated Gothic novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898), regarded as one of the greatest ghost stories ever written, that has been adapted more than any other. Most recently, the eponymous 2009 BBC TV series starring Michelle Dockery, and the Netflix series, ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ (2020). James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.

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Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether much or little consideration had been directed to the result, Miss Chancellor certainlywould not have incurred this reproach. She was habited in a plain dark dress, without anyornaments, and her smooth, colourless hair was confined as carefully as that of her sister wasencouraged to stray. She had instantly seated herself, and while Mrs. Luna talked she kept her eyeson the ground, glancing even less toward Basil Ransom than toward that woman of many words.The young man was therefore free to look at her; a contemplation which showed him that she wasagitated and trying to conceal it. He wondered why she was agitated, not foreseeing that he wasdestined to discover, later, that her nature was like a skiff in a stormy sea. Even after her sister hadpassed out of the room she sat there with her eyes turned away, as if there had been a spell upon herwhich forbade her to raise them. Miss Olive Chancellor, it may be confided to the reader, to whomin the course of our history I shall be under the necessity of imparting much occult information, wassubject to fits of tragic shyness, during which she was unable to meet even her own eyes in themirror. One of these fits had suddenly seized her now, without any obvious cause, though, indeed, Mrs. Luna had made it worse by becoming instantly so personal. There was nothing in the world sopersonal as Mrs. Luna; her sister could have hated her for it if she had not forbidden herself thisemotion as directed to individuals. Basil Ransom was a young man of first-rate intelligence, butconscious of the narrow range, as yet, of his experience. He was on his guard against generalisationswhich might be hasty; but he had arrived at two or three that were of value to a gentleman latelyadmitted to the New York bar and looking out for clients. One of them was to the effect that thesimplest division it is possible to make of the human race is into the people who take things hardand the people who take them easy

Download or read book The Bostonians written by Henry James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well, she makes mine-or the best part of them. She tells me what to say-the real things, the strong things. It's Miss Chancellor as much as me!" said the singular girl, with a generous complacency which was yet half ludicrous."I should like to hear you again," Basil Ransom rejoined."Well, you must come some night. You will have plenty of chances. We are going on from triumph to triumph."Her brightness, her self-possession, her air of being a public character, her mixture of the girlish and the comprehensive, startled and confounded her visitor, who felt that if he had come to gratify his curiosity he should be in danger of going away still more curious than satiated. She added in her gay, friendly, trustful tone-the tone of facile intercourse, the tone in which happy, flower-crowned maidens may have talked to sunburnt young men in the golden age-"I am very familiar with your name; Miss Chancellor has told me all about you.""All about me?" Ransom raised his black eyebrows. "How could she do that? She doesn't know anything about me!""Well, she told me you are a great enemy to our movement. Isn't that true? I think you expressed some unfavourable idea that day I met you at her house.""If you regard me as an enemy, it's very kind of you to receive me.""Oh, a great many gentlemen call," Verena said, calmly and brightly. "Some call simply to inquire. Some call because they have heard of me, or been present on some occasion when I have moved them. Every one is so interested.""And you have been in Europe," Ransom remarked, in a moment."Oh yes, we went over to see if they were in advance. We had a magnificent time-we saw all the leaders.""The leaders?" Ransom repeated.