Henry James

Terminations (eBook, ePUB)

The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund, The Middle Years, The Altar of the Dead

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Terminations is Henry James's most thematically unified collection of stories. Gathered in 1895, and following his fascination with the supernatural in the 1880s, this elegant collection explores the sadness of loss, both physical and spiritual, and finds James at his introspective best, while providing a glimpse of how the author dealt with death in his own life.

The collection consists of four stories: "The Death of the Lion," in which the narrator prepares to write an obituary for a great editor he admired; "The Coxon Fund," where an endowment from a will comes unexpectedly to a seemingly undeserving character; "The Middle Years," a brief glimpse at the public reception of a novel and the private sacrifice it exacted from its author; and "The Altar of the Dead," a moving meditation on finding meaning in life that James wrote in response to the death of a close lady friend.

Terminations reveals a writer preoccupied with the endings of life, expressing his thoughts in prose that is as finely balanced as the most famous of James's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812291193
• Artikelnr.: 41348757

Autorenporträt

Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City and educated there and in London, Paris, and Geneva. Cosmopolitan and multilingual, he spent most of his life and literary career in Europe. He wrote twenty-two novels, one hundred and twelve short stories, twelve plays, and more than two hundred essays and reviews as well as travel books and autobiographies. Considered among the greatest authors in world literature, his novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.