Roderick Hudson (Penguin Classics)

James, Henry; Moore Ph.D., Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 0140432647 / ISBN 13: 9780140432640

Edité par Penguin Classics (edition Revised ed.), 1986

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

N° de réf. du vendeur 0140432647-7-1

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Roderick Hudson (Penguin Classics)
• Éditeur: Penguin Classics (edition Revised ed.)
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140432647
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140432640
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Revised ed.
• État de l'article: Fair

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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.

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.