The Sacred Fount (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

James, Henry; Lyon, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140433503 ISBN 13: 9780140433500

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

The narrator speculates upon the relationships between house guests at a weekend party. John Lyon's introduction discusses how the story grew away from James, becoming a curiously intimate revelation of his interests and methods. Notes and textual revisions are also included.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

From the Back Cover:

One of Henry James's most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount ( 1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a bizarre garden path. The Sacred Fount--his only novel to employ a first-person narrator--places us in the hands of an obsessive novelist ( never named and never described, but perhaps familiar), who detects alarming changes in his acquaintances.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140433503
• ISBN 13: 9780140433500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240