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Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915 Miranda Seymour
Houghton Mifflin (T) 1989-06 0395511739 / 9780395511732 First Edition Hardcover Used: Like New Hardcover
Drawing on new material and using new illustrations, Miranda Seymour has recreated the last twenty years of Henry James's life in England, when he became master of Lamb House in Rye and the focal consciousness of a disparate band of writers who had settled in East Sussex -- H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, W.H. Hudson. Only Wells was thoroughly British; he saw his neighbors -- James included -- as a ring of foreign conspirators plotting to transform the nature of British writing.How true was Wells's description? The evidence -- and the possible conclusions -- are as contradictory as Henry James himself. A Ring of Conspirators is a narrative as vivid and irreverent as James's own fiction, an informative, artfully constructed account of Henry James's final years.
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