Terminations : The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund, The Middle Years, The Altar of the Dead / Henry James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Henry, author.

Series:

Pine Street Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction.

Cultural Studies.

Fiction.

Literature.

Local Subjects:

Cultural Studies.

Fiction.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Terminations is Henry James's most thematically unified collection of stories. Gathered in 1895, and following his fascination with the supernatural in the 1880s, this elegant collection explores the sadness of loss, both physical and spiritual, and finds James at his introspective best, while providing a glimpse of how the author dealt with death in his own life.The collection consists of four stories: "The Death of the Lion," in which the narrator prepares to write an obituary for a great editor he admired; "The Coxon Fund," where an endowment from a will comes unexpectedly to a seemingly undeserving character; "The Middle Years," a brief glimpse at the public reception of a novel and the private sacrifice it exacted from its author; and "The Altar of the Dead," a moving meditation on finding meaning in life that James wrote in response to the death of a close lady friend.Terminations reveals a writer preoccupied with the endings of life, expressing his thoughts in prose that is as finely balanced as the most famous of James's work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The Death of The Lion

The Coxon Fund

The Middle Years

The Altar of The Dead

Notes:

First published in 1895 by Harper and Brothers.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-8122-9119-0

OCLC:

891394622