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On Writers and Writing : Selected Essays by Henry James (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Slyly humorous and unabashedly opinionated, On Writers and Writing is a compelling artistic biography of a writer at his cogent and stylish best"--.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101681379236
ISBN-139781681379234
eBay Product ID (ePID)2339602088
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn Writers and Writing : Selected Essays
Number of Pages408 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicEuropean / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorHenry James
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight13.9 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-046443
Reviews"To read On Writers and Writing from cover to cover, and in the order Gorra has arranged, is an experience that surpasses in reward any contemporary writing workshop or literature seminar." --Katherine Chen, Daily Telegraph "Gorra is the ideal curator of James' essays . . . Here we see classic James, as in the essential essay 'The Art of Fiction,' as well as his reviews of contemporary novels, expansive memorials and valedictions, and examinations of the forms of fiction." --Nick Ripatrazone, The Metropolitan Review "Gorra is a close reader whose understanding of the unity of James's work arises naturally from his respect for biography and history, as well as form and style. In choosing his collection, he has done honorable service not only to the study of James but to our battered culture." --Edward Short, City Journal, "To read On Writers and Writing from cover to cover, and in the order Gorra has arranged, is an experience that surpasses in reward any contemporary writing workshop or literature seminar." --Katherine Chen, Daily Telegraph
Dewey Decimal808.3
SynopsisA new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honoré de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and passionate, James's essays are a delight for any lover of the written word. "James knew how to be generous without sacrificing the truth. What lends dignity and breadth to [his essays] above their directness and simplicity... is the exploratory reach of James's mind." --Leon Edel Henry James, the master novelist, started his literary career as a brash, often blistering reviewer, unafraid to skewer eminences like Charles Dickens and George Eliot, and continued to be a working critic for the rest of his life, driven by an unflagging desire to know what makes fiction work. James's critical essays represent an ongoing appreciation of the difficult art of the novel, searching in their consideration of story, character, and style. They also stand out as splendid contributions to the art of the essay, brilliantly argued, rich with metaphor, witty, unfailingly personal. In this new selection of James's critical essays, Michael Gorra--the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece-- draws on all the different periods of James's writing life, from his fledgling reviews in The Nation to his mature considerations of Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, and William Shakespeare's The Tempest. As an overture, there is "The Art of Fiction," in which James insists that the key ingredient of fiction is not to be moral or otherwise improving but simply "to be interesting"; for a coda, "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fields," a memoir of the literary New England of his boyhood. Overall, On Writers and Writing can be read as an artistic autobiography. Here we see James revisiting and revising his opinions on fiction, that exercise of heart and mind whose very meaning, he insists throughout, is freedom., A new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honore de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and passionate, James's essays are a delight for any lover of the written word. "James knew how to be generous without sacrificing the truth. What lends dignity and breadth to his essays above their directness and simplicity... is the exploratory reach of James's mind." -Leon Edel Henry James, the master novelist, started his literary career as a brash, often blistering reviewer, unafraid to skewer eminences like Charles Dickens and George Eliot, and continued to be a working critic for the rest of his life, driven by an unflagging desire to know what makes fiction work. James's critical essays represent an ongoing appreciation of the difficult art of the novel, searching in their consideration of story, character, and style. They also stand out as splendid contributions to the art of the essay, brilliantly argued, rich with metaphor, witty, unfailingly personal. In this new selection of James's critical essays, Michael Gorra-the author of Portrait of a Novel- Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece- draws on all the different periods of James's writing life, from his fledgling reviews in The Nation to his mature considerations of Gustave Flaubert, Honore de Balzac, and William Shakespeare's The Tempest. As an overture, there is "The Art of Fiction," in which James insists that the key ingredient of fiction is not to be moral or otherwise improving but simply "to be interesting"; for a coda, "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fields," a memoir of the literary New England of his boyhood. Overall, On Writers and Writing can be read as an artistic autobiography. Here we see James revisiting and revising his opinions on fiction, that exercise of heart and mind whose very meaning, he insists throughout, is freedom.
LC Classification NumberPS2120.O5 2025
