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Item Details
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HOUSE OF WITS
AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE JAMES FAMILY |
| By: |
Paul Fisher |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0316726575 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780316726573 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2008 |
| Pages: |
704 |
| Description: |
Vivid group biography of the celebrated 19th-century American family of intellectuals whose best-known members are novelist Henry and philosopher William James |
| Synopsis: |
Five siblings: two celebrated (novelist Henry and the philosopher William James); two brothers overshadowed by them; and one dazzling sister, Alice. Beginning with the peculiar courtship of Henry James Sr and Mary Walsh in the late 1830s and ending with the death of Henry James Jr in 1916, HOUSE OF WITS tells the story of the James family's driven and anguished quest through some of the most glittering and varied scenes of the nineteenth century. Restless and striving, the Jameses were always searching for a better house or palazzo, a better school for the children, a more exciting metropolis to live in, a snobbier club to join, a bigger and brainier magnum opus to write. Never satisfied with their conquests, they shifted from New York to grand imperial Victorian London, jaunting to German spas and Italian ruins, before they at last settled in fiercely academic Boston, a city that matched their ambitious intellectual aims and afterward launched the younger Jameses towards careers, marriages and never-satisfied international house-hunts of their own.With a narrative that calls to mind the spirit of a Henry James novel, but with an even stranger cast of characters, HOUSE OF WITS dazzlingly recreates the interactions in the lives of an astounding family. |
| Illustrations: |
Section: 8, b/w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Little, Brown & Company |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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