The Tragic Muse

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"The Tragic Muse, if we dísregard for the moment the complications of íts over-crowded canvas, is james writing at the top of his form. He has nowhere evoked better the sense of London streets and Parisian boulevards, or given us a more vivid feeling of strolling and ioitering in those capitals. . . .The Tragic Muse is as much a seri.es of rich prose pictures of scenes and of people as an easy-going drama of art and the world,... "When we place The Tragic Muse beside its two massive predecessors, The Bostoniam and The Princess Casamassima, it is possible to see that these three works of Ja mess middle phase are, in reality, cut from the same fabric, Indeed the Muse eombines the themes of the other two novels.Leon Edel, in the Introduction "His three long novels of the later eighties-The Bostoniam, The Princess Casamassima, and The Tragic Muse-are indeed, as social history, his most ambitious undertakings and, up to a point, his most brilliant .. * Miriam Rooth, the Muse herself,... Tovább

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"The Tragic Muse, if we dísregard for the moment the complications of íts over-crowded canvas, is james writing at the top of his form. He has nowhere evoked better the sense of London streets and Parisian boulevards, or given us a more vivid feeling of strolling and ioitering in those capitals. . . .The Tragic Muse is as much a seri.es of rich prose pictures of scenes and of people as an easy-going drama of art and the world,... "When we place The Tragic Muse beside its two massive predecessors, The Bostoniam and The Princess Casamassima, it is possible to see that these three works of Ja mess middle phase are, in reality, cut from the same fabric, Indeed the Muse eombines the themes of the other two novels.Leon Edel, in the Introduction "His three long novels of the later eighties-The Bostoniam, The Princess Casamassima, and The Tragic Muse-are indeed, as social history, his most ambitious undertakings and, up to a point, his most brilliant .. * Miriam Rooth, the Muse herself, comes nearer to carrying Henry James out of the enelosure of Puritán scruples and prim prejudices onto the larger stage of humán ereative effort than any other charaeter he has drawn. Here at last we seem to find ourselves with real people, who have the same appetites and ambitions as other people-in comparison, the characters of his earlier works jare real only in a certain convention."-Edmund Wieson HARPER & IBROTHERS, New York Cover Design by Arthur Hawkins Vissza