An International Episode - Couverture souple

James, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 153087887X ISBN 13 : 9781530878871

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." In An International Episode, Henry James introduces his readers to his bi-national world of love and nostalgia. Like in many of his novels, the book's main concern is about the interaction and the cultural differences between the Old World and the New World. Two British gentlemen visit the US and meet two beautiful American females who later return the visit in London. In addition to the romantic side of the story, the narrative focuses on social and cultural misunderstandings, faux pas and false friends, which makes the work very close to a comedy of manners. Being torn between his loyalty and love for his mother country and his longing for the European world of tradition and authenticity where he spent most of his life, James's work can be seen as an attempt to highlight the fundamental distinctions that separate the two cultures. Throughout the narrative and right before the sudden and unhelpful closing of the plot, the different characters are stereotypically presented; their manners, their social conventions, hypocrisy and prejudice are ironically highlighted, which makes of An International Episode an authentic reference that offers a balanced overview of British and American cultures and differences around the turn of the century.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Henry James (15 April, 1843 – 28 February, 1916) was an American-born British writer. He was the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He regularly rejected suggestions that he marry, and after settling in London proclaimed himself "a bachelor." As more material became available to scholars, including the diaries of contemporaries and hundreds of affectionate and sometimes erotic letters written by James to younger men, the picture of neurotic celibacy gave way to a portrait of a closeted homosexual. Until late in life his novels were serialised in magazines before book publication. To supplement his income he also wrote frequently for newspapers. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 153087887X
• ISBN 13: 9781530878871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 78