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1 de jul. de 2014 · The novel The Spoils of Poynton represents a major turning point in the stylistic development of American literary master Henry James, as he eased into the tense, taut drawing-room dramas that would come to characterize his later work.
The Spoils of Poynton 63 Spoils James never wavered in his sense of the inevitable denoue-ment-the destruction of Poynton, the "horrible conflagration." Of course, one of the questions raised by James's comments in the "Preface," as well as by the treatment of Mrs. Gereth in the novel, is whether this inheritance is truly something valuable or
The Spoils of Poynton (1896) is a short novel which James wrote in his late period, following the catastrophe of his excursion into the theatre, just before the composition of What Masie Knew, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. It was first serialised in the Atlantic Monthly under the title of The Old Things then extensively revised by ...
~ 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.
24 de mar. de 2022 · James' "The Spoils of Poynton". March 24, 2022. Henry James, I think, is an acquired taste that I never did acquire even though I was diligent in reading his major works when in graduate school. I didn’t like him because he was artful in the bad sense of the word. He arranged his stories so as to make a moral point after having clinched his ...
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Mrs Gereth returns all the best furniture to Poynton, just before Owen and Mona get married, and they go abroad on their honeymoon. Owen writes to Fleda, inviting her to choose one item from the house for herself. She goes to Poynton, but finds it has gone up in flames, along with all of its contents.
