The Awkward Age

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The Awkward Age / Henry James ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vivien Jones. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XLVII, 376 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

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James, Henry (1843-1916). Autor Jones, Vivien (1952-). Redakcja

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

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The Awkward Age (1899), written at a time when female emancipation and the double standard were subjects of fierce debate, is the most remarkable example of James's dramatic method. l The novel traces the experiences of 18-year-old Nanda Brookenham, exposed to corruption in the salon of her youthful, 'modern' mother, who, in maintaining a circle where talk is shockingly sophisticated, 'must sacrifice either her daughter or...her intellectual habits'. Does Nanda reach maturity and self-knowledge in the lively company of handsome, genial Vanderbank, whom she loves, and of ugly, intelligent, parvenu Mitchy, who loves her? Or is she a symbol of sterile idealism, as she clings to old Mr Longdon, with his memories of Nanda's grandmother, and of an aristocracy once untouched by money-troubles and dubious French novels? A sense of suppressed violence lurks behind this powerful story of virginal innocence and its importance in the marriage market.

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Includes bibliographical references na stronach XXIII-XXIV.