Author, Author
Author: David Lodge
Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James’s last illness, Author, Author begins in the early 1880s, describing James’s friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, re….Read More
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Moon Tiger
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