Watch and Ward

by Henry James

Overview

Wealthy Roger Lawrence adopts twelve-year-old Nora Lambert after her father kills himself in the hotel room next to Lawrence’s. Roger had refused financial assistance to the man, and he feels remorse. Nora is not a pretty child but she soon starts to develop, as does Roger’s idea of eventually marrying her.
Unfortunately for Roger, once Nora matures into a beautiful young woman, she is attracted to two other men: worthless George Fenton and the somewhat hypocritical minister, Hubert Lawrence (Roger’s cousin).
After various adventures Nora winds up in the clutches of Fenton in New York...
A poignant story of unfulfilled lives and lost love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788829548705
Publisher:	Classica Libris
Publication date:	11/12/2018
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	949 KB

About the Author

JAY S. SPINA is an adjunct professor at Salem State University. He has worked as an editorial assistant on The Complete Letters of Henry James. He has also published a variorum e-text of Henry James's Watch and Ward (2006).

PIERRE A. WALKER is professor of English at Salem State University. He is the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts (1995), editor of Henry James on Culture (2004), creator of dearhenryjames.org, co-general editor of the nine volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1880 (2006–2015) and general editor emeritus of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1915 (2016–). He is a past president of the Henry James Society and, in addition to publishing on James in numerous journals and book collections, has also published on literary theory, African American literature, and Edith Wharton.

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

General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of Watch and Ward; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; Watch and Ward; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

Editorial Reviews

‘…both newly and fastidiously informative about the novel’s contextual and compositional history.’ Times Literary Supplement

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