The Bostonians (Modern Library) (Modern Library Classics (Paperback)) - Softcover

Henry James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812969960 ISBN 13: 9780812969962

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 2004

Synopsis

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Review:

It is about idealism in a democracy that is still recovering from a civil war bitterly fought for social ideals [written] with a ferocious, precise, detailed and wildly comic realism --A. S. Byatt writes in her Introduction

As devastating in its wit as it is sharp in its social critique of sexual politics. No writer in America had dared the subject before. No one has done it so well since --The New Republic

From the Back Cover:

Henry James' celebrated novel about a passionate New England suffragette, her displaced southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wished to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that is speaks to us with a voice as fresh and as vital as when the book was first published in 1882. Majestic in its movement, rich and sympathetic in its ironies, The Bostonians is the work of a master psychologist at the top of his form.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0812969960
• ISBN 13: 9780812969962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496