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The Bostonians (English Library)

by James, Henry, Anderson, Charles R. · 1984

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Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

1984

Pages

448

Language

English

Edition format

Paperback

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Review

?As devastating in its wit as it is sharp in its social critique of sexual politics. No writer in America had dared the subject before. No one has done it so well since.??The New Republic --This text refers to the

Paperback edition.

Book Description

Henry James' celebrated novel about a passionate New England suffragette, her displaced southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wished to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that it speaks to us with a voice as fresh and as vital as when the book was first published in 1882. Majestic in its movement, rich and sympathetic in its ironies, The Bostonians is the work of a master psychologist at the top of his form. --This text refers to the

Hardcover edition.

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