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Sacred Fount

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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry Jr. James, R. P. Blackmur (Introduction by), Leon Edel (Introduction by)Series:Revived Modern Classic #0790Publish date:1995-01-01Pages:244
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811212793ISBN-10:811212793UPC:9780811212793Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:7.97 x 5.25 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC5JTA6JBP
One of Henry James's most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount (1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a bizarre garden path. The Sacred Fount--his only novel to employ a first-person narrator--places us in the hands of an obsessive novelist (never named and never described, but perhaps familiar), who detects alarming changes in his acquaintances. A woman known for her élan has lost her poise, a dull man is charming; a friend is suddenly aged, a plain woman sparkles. Where one improves, another seems to suffer. With "plunges of insight," "as noiseless and guarded as if I were trapping a bird," the narrator stalks his fellow guests through the weekend, avidly trying to make sense of what he comes to believe are actual exchanges of life force. "The sacred fount," as R.P. Blackmur noted, "is the mystery of the power that passes among us, depleting or restoring us, in friendship, in love, even in more public relations .... [Here] is the beautiful, the critical job of making that mystery manifest."
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811212793ISBN-10:811212793UPC:9780811212793Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:7.97 x 5.25 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC5JTA6JBP
James, Henry: - Henry James (1843-1916) was an American novelist and literary critic. Between 1866 and 1869, he wrote for Nation and Atlantic. When he moved to Paris, he began writing for the New York Tribune. During World War I, James worked as a volunteer among the displaced and wounded. He passed away in 1916.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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