Maurice Guest: A Novel - Couverture souple

Richardson, Henry Handel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1634505077 ISBN 13 : 9781634505079

Editeur : Skyhorse, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Maurice Guest comes to Leipzig, the music capital of Europe, to realize his dream of becoming a great pianist. However, in its bohemian and heady atmosphere, he encounters not exaltation and inspiration but coarseness, greed, and ambition. For his muse, he turns to Louise Dufraryer, an exotic and languid pianist. Louise has recently been deserted by her own obsessive love, the resident composer and reigning genius, Schilsky.

Now her capricious demands on Maurice’s time and energy destroy whatever slight chance he may have had at distinguishing himself. The more he slides in failure, the more striking the contrast between him and the absent Schilsky, who still holds first place in Louise’s thoughts and feelings. The degradation of their relationship runs its full course until jealousy and hatred are its only vital forms.

Maurice Guest was first published in 1908. Antonia White called it one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.” As a study of the tragic power of desperate love, it ranks in the great tradition of the European naturalist novel.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

PREFACE THIS remarkable novel, first pubHshed in England in 1908, is one of those few whose influence has been persistently important and fruitful, almost, as it were, in spite of itSelf. 1 do not mean that on its first appearance everything possible was not done for it. Its publishers advertised it most ably, many reviewers were enthusiastic, but it had none' of those immediate glories and sensations that fall every once and again to remarkable first novels. It was talked about a little, it was admired intensely by a few) and then at the end of the three months that are supposed to be the average span of a novel's active life, it apparent]y vanished and was no more seen. It was only then, however, that its real history began. From that year of 1908 until this of 1922, it may be said that no week has passed during which someone somewhere has not said to someone else, Ie Have you ever read a book called' Maurice Guest' ? If not, you'd better." It may further be sa

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Skyhorse
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1634505077
• ISBN 13: 9781634505079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 564