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20 de fev. de 2021 · IV “Well, you’ll have to guess my name before I’ll tell you,” the girl said, with a free laugh, pushing her way into the narrow hall and leaning against the tattered wall-paper, which, representing blocks of marble with bevelled edges, in streaks and speckles of black and gray, had not been renewed for years and came back to her out of the past.
The republication of Henry James’ only explicitly political novel, The Princess Casamassima, in the Library of America invites a timely rethinking of its troubled reputation. From the first it has been viewed, even by its author, as a problem novel. In a brief notebook entry for Aug. 10, 1885, James complained that he had “never yet become ...
In following Virgin Soil’s thematization of the populist, nihilist, and anarchist ideas of Mikhail Bakunin and Sergey Nechayev, The Princess Casamassima reads almost like James’s palimpsestic “correction” of Turgenev’s novel.19 The two—or, to be more precise, James’s review of Virgin Soil and his Princess Casamassima—overlap in a number of ways: first, there is Turgenev’s ...
The Princess Casamassima is one of James's most personal novels and yet one of the most socially engaged. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
the princess casamassima And at night I suppose they rave, quite awful, the little dressmaker sug-gested, feeling vaguely that prisons and madhouses 9
It is with this optimistic appeal to maternal sentiment that James begins his novel of radical conspiracy. Mrs Bowerbank, a wardress at Millbank Prison, bears a request from one of the inmates that she should see her child before she dies. The woman in question, a French seamstress, is serving a life-sentence for stabbing her lover, Lord ...
28 de jun. de 2003 · The Princess Casamassima by Henry James reviewed in the Guardian, February 23, 1887. Fri 27 Jun 2003 20.29 EDT. Share.
