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All a novelist needs : Colm Tóibín on Henry James
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All a novelist needs : Colm Tóibín on Henry James

Author: Colm Tóibín; Susan M Griffin
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Looks at Henry James' life and work in many and various ways. The author reveals a novelist haunted by George Eliot and demonstrates how thoroughly James was a New Yorker. He also demonstrates how a  Read more...

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Named Person: Henry James
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Colm Tóibín; Susan M Griffin
ISBN: 9780801897788 0801897785 9780801897795 0801897793
OCLC Number: 613425979
Description: xviii, 148 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Henry James in Ireland : a footnote --
The haunting of Lamb House --
A more elaborate web : becoming Henry James --
Pure evil : "The turn of the screw" --
The lessons of the master --
Henry James's New York --
A death, a book, an apartment : The portrait of a lady --
Reflective biography --
A bundle of letters --
All a novelist needs --
The later Jameses --
Afterword : silence.
Responsibility: Colm Tóibín ; edited and with an introduction by Susan M. Griffin.

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The book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Read more...

 
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