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by Henry James
language: english
Publisher: Dead Dodo Presents Henry James, September of 2015 ‧
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Chaperon.’

 

"An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees.  She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind.  She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them.  What she really saw was quite another train of affairs.  The room was spacious and dim; the thick London fog had oozed into it even through its superior defences.  It was full of dusky, massive, valuable things.  The old lady sat motionless save for the regularity of her clicking needles, which seemed as personal to her and as expressive as prolonged fingers.  If she was thinking something out, she was thinking it thoroughly."

 

Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

Chaperon

by Henry James

Property Description
ISBN: 9781508027690
Publisher: Dead Dodo Presents Henry James
Release Date: September of 2015
Language: English
Pages: 66
Format: eBook
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Collection: Henry James Collection
Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9781508027690
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916), nasceu em Nova Iorque, nos Estados Unidos, numa família de intelectuais. Filho do teólogo Henry James Sr e irmão do filósofo-psicólogo William James, foi um dos mais reconhecidos autores de finais do século XIX e princípios do século XX. Na sua juventude viajou basntante entre a Europa e a América, estudando com professores de Geneva, Londres, Bolonha, Paris, chegando mesmo a frequentar por um período breve a Harvard Law School. Passou assim a maior parte da vida na Europa dedicando-se à escrita de vários géneros como romances, contos, crítica literária e artística, literatura de viagens, biografia e autobiografia. Analisava o mundo tendo em conta conceitos base como a liberdade, o monólogo interior e o drama psicológico, abordando histórias de fantasmas onde explorava a ténue fronteira entre o sobrenatural e as áreas mais recônditas da mente humana. Das suas inúmeras obras notabilizaram-se Retrato de Uma Senhora, Os Europeus,O Mentiroso e Daisy Miller, entre outras.

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