The Other House (Everyman's Library) - Softcover
When THE OTHER HOUSE first appeared in 1896 it caused one critic to declare thatit was the work which would secure James's literary reputation.Presented in 3 acts,THE OTHER HOUSE combines James's skills as a dramatist with the craftmanship of his novels.The story revolves around two neighbouring households their loves and rivalries.Meddlesome matchmaking,a death by drowning and unspoken yet all-consuming passions feature in this work,which is little known but displays the qualities which distinguish James's more established masterpieces.
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""The Other House" is the story of a brutal crime, and its violence is not duplicated in any of Henry James's other works...[It] takes place in broad British daylight, and the passions which explode in it with such force are acted out on disciplined lawns between stately British houses, deriving their well--founded security from a banking fortune. "The Other House" is intensely British in its motives and emotions; and its intensity derives precisely from the fact that when the calm is broken, and the conflict...is engaged the contrast is as of a violent rush of air into a place of quiet..." --Leon Edel
""The Other House" contains some of the most harrowing, compressed, and ambiguous scenes James ever wrote." --"Threepenny Review
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"Played out on the tidy lawns between two aristocratic houses, the staid Eastmead and the boisterous Bounds, a desperately tangled love-scrimmage spirals into a crime of unspeakable brutality, with a deeply unsettling climax. Readers left puzzled by the murky pychosexual terror of James's "The Turn of The Screw" should give this passionate melodrama a try." --"Library Journal"
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""The Other House" contains some of the most harrowing, compressed, and ambiguous scenes James ever wrote." --"Threepenny Review
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"Played out on the tidy lawns between two aristocratic houses, the staid Eastmead and the boisterous Bounds, a desperately tangled love-scrimmage spirals into a crime of unspeakable brutality, with a deeply unsettling climax. Readers left puzzled by the murky pychosexual terror of James's "The Turn of The Screw" should give this passionate melodrama a try." --"Library Journal"
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0460878069
- ISBN 13 9780460878067
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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