Roderick Hudson
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 2006
400 pages
978-0-14-192211-9 (ISBN)
Description
When wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor's beauty, spirit and charisma. Wishing to give the impoverished artist the opportunity to develop his talent, he takes Roderick from America to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration and Rowland loses control of his protege, while both fall in love with women they cannot ever have. Can Roderick be saved from the path to self-destruction he seems set on? One of Henry James's first novels, Roderick Hudson (1875) is a compelling depiction of the artistic temperament and of a young man who, like Icarus, flies too close to the sun.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-192211-9 (9780141922119)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Henry James | Geoffrey Moore
Roderick Hudson
Book
03/1986
Penguin Classics
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Persons
Henry James was born in 1843 in new York, with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Having studied in New York and Europe, he became a lawyer, and started writing in 1865. Spending time in Paris he knew Flaubert and Turgenev, before moving to London and then Sussex.
