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Mrs Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts her into the battle-line.
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 ...
Les Dépouilles de Poynton (The Spoils of Poynton) est un roman américain de Henry James, paru en 1897.. Il s'agit d'un des plus courts romans de l'auteur qui, sans être considéré comme une de ses œuvres majeures, est certainement un de ses récits les plus efficaces.
Spoils of Poynton, The, Source: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Author(s): James D. Hart, Phillip LeiningerPhillip Leininger. novel by Henry James, published in 1897.Old Mrs. Gereth and young Fleda Vetch, while visiting the English country place of the vulgar Brigstocks, find a bond of sympathy in their dislike of their hosts' bad taste.
The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James. Read Books, 2012 - Inheritance and succession - 266 pages. 1 Review.
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 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.