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Inventing the Real : The Old Maid and the Real Thing by Edith Wharton and Henry James (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeminist Press at T.H.E. City University of New York
ISBN-101558615768
ISBN-139781558615762
eBay Product ID (ePID)64039470
Product Key Features
Book TitleInventing the Real : the Old Maid and the Real Thing
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Romance / General
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorEdith Wharton, Henry James
Book SeriesTwo By Two Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-033832
Reviews"This remarkable volume is a small treasure." -- Brenda Wineapple, author of Hawthorne: A Life "The inimitable Edith Wharton and her friend, the unerring Henry James--their ironies pristine as ever--produce: brilliant satires pitting convention and patent-leather against the moral complexity of the human heart." -- Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat "There is something deeply adventurous about these works. . . . Both Wharton and James hold our attention, unceasingly, by opposing forces, male and female, and more subtly, by the counterfoils." -- Mary Ann Caws, from the Introduction, "This remarkable volume is a small treasure." --Brenda Wineapple, author of Hawthorne: A Life "The inimitable Edith Wharton and her friend, the unerring Henry James--their ironies pristine as ever--produce: brilliant satires pitting convention and patent-leather against the moral complexity of the human heart." --Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat "There is something deeply adventurous about these works. . . . Both Wharton and James hold our attention, unceasingly, by opposing forces, male and female, and more subtly, by the counterfoils." --Mary Ann Caws, from the Introduction
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813.008
SynopsisIronies upon ironies unfold as two kindred writers (in life as well as art) and masters of the short story dance along the border between reality and appearance. Wharton explores the secret love of a woman for her illegitimate daughter, whom her married sister has adopted in an effort to save the mother's reputation and to allow her daughter to have a peaceful childhood. James probes a portrait painter's art as he deals with a couple of threadbare aristocrats, who are seeking employment as his models. They are the "real thing" he is seeking to portray--denizens of drawing room society--but his work is thwarted when he discovers that plucky lower-class models are, in fact, far better able to take on the personae of a rarified class.
LC Classification NumberPS645.I58 2008
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