The Awkward Age - Couverture souple

James, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140432973 ISBN 13 : 9780140432978

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1987

Synopsis

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting influences out of loyalty to the deep love he once felt for her grandmother. In The Awkward Age (1899), Henry James explores the English character, and the clash between old and new money with a light and subtly ironic touch to create a devastating critique of society and its machinations.

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: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140432973
• ISBN 13: 9780140432978
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Éditeur: Blythe Ronald, Crick Patricia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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