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The Wings of the Dove Capa comum – 1 julho 2008
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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
- ISBN-100141441283
- ISBN-13978-0141441283
- Edição1ª
- EditoraPenguin Books
- Data da publicação1 julho 2008
- IdiomaInglês
- Dimensões19.61 x 13.11 x 1.98 cm
- Número de páginas554 páginas
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Sobre o Autor
In 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima(1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).
During his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.
Philip Horne has spent a decade looking at the thousands of James's letters in archives in the United States and Europe. A Reader in English Literature at University College, London, he is the author of Henry James and Revision and the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of James's The Tragic Muse.
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- Editora : Penguin Books; 1ª edição (1 julho 2008)
- Idioma : Inglês
- Capa comum : 554 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 0141441283
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141441283
- Dimensões : 19.61 x 13.11 x 1.98 cm
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A sordid plot but James manages to elevate the whole thing to art. Every character gets his/her full consideration, even Kate who is not a 'good' woman but not completely bad either. She is a dutiful daughter and sister to people who see her as their ticket out of poverty and care little about what happens to her in the process. The heroine Milly Theale is the character who emerges least clearly from the novel (at least for me), probably because she is so good she seems (to me) more like a fantasy or an ideal than a real person.
Milly's illness is a key plot point since it is the anchor on which the rest turns so I found it kind of amusing how James elides over the subject. We never even know what disease she has; the closest we come to knowing anything is when the doctor says it is not tuberculosis, a curious statement when you think about it. It doesn't really help to know what she doesn't have but then again this is the 19th century (when the novel takes place) and doctors didn't have many diagnostic tools. Even so, Milly's interview with her doctor is one of the more curious in fiction since it never seems to approach a clinical diagnosis but is rather the sort of conversation that might have taken place in the intervals at an opera house. (James remarks in his introduction that he doesn't want to dwell on Milly's illness, that it is not the subject of the book but rather her intense desire to live so perhaps that is why.)
Anyway this is a marvelous book which well repays the effort of reading it. Some have remarked that the books of James's later period (to which The Wings of the Dove belongs) are more obscure and harder to read than his earlier books but I disagree. I don't think The Wings of the Dove is any more difficult to read and understand than A Portrait of a Lady (a novel of his 'social' period) and it is (for me at least ) far more rewarding.
Reading James is always worth the effort; even the sometimes tortuous passages inside the characters’ minds. In fact, those are particularly worth reading. James’s ability to convey personality is precisely because of his literary innovation. Moreover, although his perennial theme of Old versus New World is latent, The Wings of the Dove is more simply an exquisite study of human personality than any of his other novels. James may be the quintessential writer meant by the quip, “Reading fine literature may not tell you how to design a circuit, but it will teach you how to live.”
Additionally, James anticipates Ian McEwan’s Atonement by basing this novel on an imagined life for a beloved cousin who died young. All together, you have one of those works of the human imagination that bear comparison to the world’s natural wonders. It’s not essential reading of course, but not experiencing Henry James is akin to what’s been said about not knowing another language, “One’s life is so much the poorer for it.” I strongly recommend making the lengthy but worthwhile effort to delve into this choice work from James’s oeuvre.