The Master

Toibin, Colm

ISBN 10: 1587248255 / ISBN 13: 9781587248252

Published by Cengage Gale, 2004

About this Item

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Master
• Publisher: Cengage Gale
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587248255
• ISBN 13: 9781587248252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

It is January 1895 and Henry James's play Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make a fortune, has failed on the London stage. The Master opens with this disaster and takes James through the next five years, as having found his dream retreat, he moves to Rye in Sussex. It is there he writes his short masterpiece, The Turn of the Screw, in which he used much of his own life as an exile in England and a member of one of the great eccentric American families. He is impelled by the need to work and haunted by sections of his own past, including his own failure to fight in the American Civil War, the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice. He is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.

Review

Exquisitely crafted and full on finely nuanced psychological observation. It is profoundly moving. -- Independent

Hastings creates a compelling picture of the end of the Third Reich. Armageddon is a triumph, raw and powerful. -- Gary Sheffield in BBC history magazine

In its quiet way, this novel's imaginative truthfulness crosses boundaries and challenges biographers. -- Anne Chisholm in Sunday Telegraph, November 2004

‘Toibin makes James seem more human than, for me, Leon Edel’s famous biography ever did.’ -- John Carey, Sunday Times