Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 31 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story (sometimes considered a novella) by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works. "The Figure in the Carpet" has evaded definitive interpretation. In his book Henry James (1913), Ford Madox Ford wrote that after it was published, James's contemporaries set themselves on a quest for the Figure as an identifiable physical entity. In the preface to his A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941), T. S. Eliot wrote, "Nowadays, we all look for the Figure in the Carpet." It is possible that James's Figure is a palpable object that, like a talisman, facilitates interpretation of his own work. The narrator, a writer for a literary newspaper, prides himself on his astute review of Hugh Vereker's latest novel. Vereker inadvertently dismisses his efforts, and then to repair his incivility, confides in the narrator that all critics have "missed my little point," "the particular thing I've written my books most for," "the thing for the critic to find," "my secret," "like a complex figure in a Persian carpet." The narrator racks his brains and, in desperation, tells his friend Corvick about the puzzle. Corvick and his novelist fiancée, Gwendolen, pursue "the trick" without success until Corvick, traveling alone in India, wires Gwendolen and the narrator "Eureka! Immense." He refuses to tell Gwendolen the secret until they are married, and then dies in an accident. Since Gwendolen refuses to share her knowledge, the narrator speculates, "the figure in the carpet [was] traceable or describable only for husbands and wives-for lovers supremely united." She remarries, and after her death, the narrator approaches her new husband to discover the secret. But the widowed husband is surprised and humiliated by the news of his late wife's great "secret," and he and the narrator conclude by sharing the same curiosity.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 31 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story (sometimes considered a novella) by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. "The Jolly Corner" is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December, 1908.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 15 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture and Text is a collection of essays by Henry James on the art of illustration, published in 1893. A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 35 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 01 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 04 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR).
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 30 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coxon Fund" is an 1894 short story by Henry James. Frank Saltram is a man who apparently has a towering intellect, but one that manifests itself only in sparkling table-talk. The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James. The narrator suggests writing an article on Neil Paraday an author; his new editor agrees.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant Part VI Volume 24 written by Josie Billington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1883 novel The Ladies Lindores with editorial notes by Josie Billington including a new introduction and headnote, giving key information about the book and its publication history.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant Part VI written by Joanne Shattock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) is one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. She was both prolific and wide ranging in her career which spanned half a century. Primarily known as a novelist Mrs Oliphant is of interest to scholars today both for her wide popularity in her prime and her influential position as reviewer and journalist which saw her become an important critical voice for her generation. Her high profile in the literary world led to savage satirical portrayals in works by Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. This is the most ambitious and substantial scholarly edition of Margaret Oliphant's writings ever undertaken. In six parts and twenty-five volumes all her important fiction plus substantial selections of her criticism and journalism are collected and edited by a prestigious editorial team. The novels contained in Parts V and VI represent some of Margaret Oliphant's most significant work. Darker and more politically motivated than the more comic Chronicles of Carlingford, they show Oliphant at the height of her writing powers. Money, financial crises and social and sexual inequality all feature strongly in these works which find Oliphant sharply critical of materialistic, late-Victorian culture. They mirror her own experiences as a female professional writer having to support her family single-handedly. They also form some of her most popular and enduring works which gained a wide readership through serialization. The significance of Oliphant as a writer can only be fully appreciated by close study of these novels, which bring to completion this major twenty-five-volume scholarly edition.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 30 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James. The narrator suggests writing an article on Neil Paraday an author; his new editor agrees. The former spends a week with Neil and writes the article whilst there, alongside reading Paraday's latest book.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 18 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life, 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.
Download or read book Collected Critical Writings written by Geoffrey Hill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Geoffrey Hill's criticism spans the length of his career as a pre-eminent poet-critic. The topics range widely across English literature since the Renaissance and include extended studies of major writers as well as essays which confront the problems of language and the nature of value.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 04 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). "The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892.
Download or read book Emerson Melville James Berryman written by Peter Rawlings and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 20 of 36 Partial Portraits English Hours written by Henry James and published by Throne Classics. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. English Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1905.
Download or read book The Works of Henry James Vol 25 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lesson of the Master is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in 1888. The novella tells the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who meets Henry St. George, a famous novelist Overt admires. During that time, Overt also meets and falls in love with Marian Fancourt, a young woman who admires both St. George's and Overt's work. During their meetings, St. George, who is married, advises Overt against getting married and having children, arguing that a wife and children will be the death of Overt's creativity and career. Overt then takes an extended vacation in which he considers St. George's advice. When he returns, he learns that St. George's wife had died and that St. George and Marian Fancourt had become engaged. Overt feels that St. George had set him up in order to have Miss Fancourt for himself, but St. George insists that by marrying her, he saved Overt and his career.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 12 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life, 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.
