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Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01
  • ISBN : 9781290361590
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
  • Release : 2018-10-26
  • ISBN : 9780344272547
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Secret of Lost Things

Download or read book The Secret of Lost Things written by Sheridan Hay and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city. Taking a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books called the Arcade, she knows she has found a home. But when Rosemary reads a letter from someone seeking to “place” a lost manuscript by Herman Melville, the bookstore erupts with simmering ambitions and rivalries. Including actual correspondence by Melville, The Secret of Lost Things is at once a literary adventure and evocative portrait of a young woman making a life for herself in the city.

Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : James H.
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN : 5521070796
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by James H. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1953 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. In «The Sacred Fount» an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the «detective and keyhole» methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.

Book SACRED FOUNT A NOVEL

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  • Author : Henry 1843-1916 James
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-29
  • ISBN : 9781373800947
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book SACRED FOUNT A NOVEL written by Henry 1843-1916 James and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Sacred Fount  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Sacred Fount Classic Reprint written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sacred Fount I found myself once more, as we moved, with Mrs. Server, and I remember rejoicing that, sympathetic as she showed herself, she didn't think it necessary to be, like Lady John, always ready. She was delight fully handsome - handsomer than ever; slim, fair, fine, with charming pale eyes and splendid auburn hair. I said to myself that I hadn't done her justice; she hadn't organised her forces, was a little helpless and vague, but there was ease for the weary in her happy nature and her peculiar grace. These last were articles on which, five minutes later, before the house, where we still had a margin, I was moved to challenge Ford Obert. 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.

Book The Sacred Fount  Esprios Classics

Download or read book The Sacred Fount Esprios Classics written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the "detective and keyhole" methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.

Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2021-04-25
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sacred Fount" is an absorbing work that concerns an unnamed narrator trying to find the truth about the love lives of house guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He disregards the "detective and keyhole" methods and instead tries to decode these relationships from the behavior and appearance of each guest.

Book The Sacred Fount  Annotated

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-10-02
  • ISBN : 9781539174387
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount Annotated written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the "detective and keyhole" methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.

Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-12-02
  • ISBN : 9781790659630
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the "detective and keyhole" methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.Plot summaryAs he waits for the train to take him to a weekend party in the country, the narrator notices that Gilbert Long seems much more assured and lively than before. He also sees that Mrs. Brissenden (nicknamed "Mrs. Briss") is much younger-looking than her husband, though she's actually ten years older. The narrator begins to theorize that Long and Mrs. Briss are getting their vitality, vampire-like, from the "sacred fount" of their sexual partners' energy. At first, the narrator theorizes that the source of Long's newfound assurance and intelligence is a certain Lady John.Later he changes his mind, as he constantly discusses his ideas with others at the party, particularly an artist, Ford Obert. The narrator notices that another woman at the party, May Server, seems listless, and he starts to wonder if she may be the lover providing vitality to Long. Eventually, the narrator begins to construct enormously elaborate theories of who is taking vitality from whom, and whether some people are acting as screens for the real lovers. In a long midnight confrontation with Mrs. Briss which concludes the novel, she says the narrator's theories are ridiculous, and he has completely misread the actual relationships of their fellow guests. She finishes by telling him he's crazy, and that last word leaves the narrator dismayed and overwhelmed...Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

Book Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts

Download or read book Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts written by Maurice Beebe and published by New York : New York University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sacred Fount

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  • Author : Henry HENRY JAMES
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry HENRY JAMES and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HENRY JAMES

Book The Challenge of Bewilderment

Download or read book The Challenge of Bewilderment written by Paul B. Armstrong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narration. Paul B. Armstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of "bewilderment," an experience that challenges the reader’s very sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretative construct. Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade’s End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing. Armstrong demonstrates how the novelists’ attitudes toward the process of knowing inform experiments with representation, through which they thematize the relation between the understanding of a fictional world and everyday habits of perception. Finally, he considers how these experiments with the strategies of narration produce a heightened awareness of the process of interpretation.

Book The Living Dead

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  • Author : James B. Twitchell
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780822307891
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Living Dead written by James B. Twitchell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.

Book Henry James  Novels 1901 1902  LOA  162

Download or read book Henry James Novels 1901 1902 LOA 162 written by Henry James and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Library of America volume brings together one of Henry James’s most unusual experiments and one of his most beloved masterpieces Writing to his friend William Dean Howells, Henry James characterized his experimental novel, The Sacred Fount, as the only one of his novels to be told in the first person, as “a fine flight into the high fantastic.” While traveling to the country house of Newmarch for a weekend party, the nameless narrator becomes obsessed with the idea that a person may become younger or cleverer by tapping the “sacred fount” of another person. Convinced that Grace Brissenden has become younger by drawing upon her husband, Guy, the narrator seeks to discover the source of the newfound wit of Gilbert Long, previously “a fine piece of human furniture.” His perplexing and ambiguous quest, and the varying reactions it provokes from the other guests, calls into question the imaginative inquiry central to James’s art of the novel. James described the essential idea of The Wings of the Dove as “a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world.” The heroine, a wealthy young American heiress, Milly Theale (inspired by James’s beloved cousin Minny Temple), is slowly drawn into a trap set for her by the English adventuress Kate Croy and her lover, the journalist Morton Densher. The unexpected outcome of their mercenary scheme provides the resolution to a tragic story of love and betrayal, innocence and experience that has long been acknowledged as one of James’s supreme achievements as a novelist. This volume prints the New York Edition text of The Wings of the Dove, and includes the illuminating preface James wrote for that edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Book Henry James Goes to Paris

Download or read book Henry James Goes to Paris written by Peter Brooks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description