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~ The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James ~ A Capsule Book Review by Allen Kopp . Henry James was an American writer who lived from 1843 to 1916. If he seems more an English writer than American, that’s because he did most of his work while living in England and, late in his life, gave up his American citizenship and became a British subject.
1 de mar. de 1988 · In The Spoils of Poynton (1897), Henry James created a work of exquisite ambiguity in his depiction of three women fighting for the allegiance of one weak-willed man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
- Henry James
In The Spoils of Poynton (1897), Henry James created a work of exquisite ambiguity in his depiction of three women fighting for the allegiance of one weak-willed man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a ...
The Spoils of Poynton is a compelling story about the fight between possessions, morals and love. It was originally published as part of a series in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896, but was released as a short novel only a year later. About the book. Mrs Gereth, a wealthy widow, is dreading the day that her son, Owen, gets married.
Popular passages. Page 257 - If there were more there would be too many to convey the impression in which half the beauty THE SPOILS OF POYNTON 267 resides — the impression, somehow, of something dreamed and missed, something reduced, relinquished, resigned : the poetry, as it were, of something sensibly gone. Appears in 25 books from 1897-2003.
16 de jul. de 2012 · The New Woman, Portable Property and The Spoils of Poynton. D. Wynne. History, Law. 2010. This essay argues that The Spoils of Poynton (1897) can usefully be read in relation to the emergence of the New Woman and her demands for social equality, particularly her demand for equal property…. Expand.
