The Europeans: A Sketch (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141441402 ISBN 13: 9780141441405

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.

About this title

Review:

"He is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry."--Graham Greene

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.

Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice.
He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141441402
• ISBN 13: 9780141441405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Taylor Andrew