The Portrait of a Lady

ISBN-13: 9781509850914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 608 str.

Henry James

Opis

An elegant collector's edition of Henry James' most accomplished novel with an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm Toibin.

O autorze

Henry James was born in New York in 1843, the younger brother of the philosopher William James, and was educated in Europe and America. He left Harvard Law School in 1863, after a year's attendance, to concentrate on writing, and from 1869 he began to make prolonged visits to Europe, eventually settling in England in 1876. His literary output was both prodigious and of the highest quality: more than ten outstanding novels including his masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady; countless novellas and short stories; as well as innumerable essays, letters, and other pieces of critical prose. Known by contemporary fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in Kensington, London, in 1916. Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of numerous novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, House of Names and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction, including Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Father of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. He lives in Dublin.