Roderick Hudson - Couverture souple

James, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140432647 ISBN 13 : 9780140432640

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1986

Synopsis

When wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor's beauty, spirit and charisma. Wishing to give the impoverished artist the opportunity to develop his talent, he takes Roderick from America to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration and Rowland loses control of his protégé, while both fall in love with women they cannot ever have. Can Roderick be saved from the path to self-destruction he seems set on? One of Henry James's first novels, Roderick Hudson (1875) is a compelling depiction of the artistic temperament and of a young man who, like Icarus, flies too close to the sun.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140432647
• ISBN 13: 9780140432640
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Moore Geoffrey, Crick Patricia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible