The Sacred Fount

by Henry James

Overview

One of Henry James's most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount ( 1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a bizarre garden path. The Sacred Fount--his only novel to employ a first-person narrator--places us in the hands of an obsessive novelist ( never named and never described, but perhaps familiar), who detects alarming changes in his acquaintances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781494776923
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/23/2013
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

T. J. Lustig is Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is the author of Henry James and the Ghostly (Cambridge, 1995) and editor of The Turn of the Screw (1992).

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editor's preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of The Sacred Fount; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Sacred Fount; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

Editorial Reviews

James's 1901 novel is his only first-person narrative. The action is seen through the eyes of an unnamed narrator, a novelist attending a weekend party at an English estate. As the story progresses, the narrator begins to detect vast changes in his fellow guests as they begin taking on each other's personalities.

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