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Title: The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James, Adrian Poole ISBN: 0-19-283616-1 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Reader and Writer in "The Aspern Papers"
Comment: I enjoyed this book, if only for the different manners in which they approached the role of writer and reader(or non-reader in the case of "The Death of the Lion"). The four stories "The Aspern Papers", "The Middle Years" and "The Death of the Lion" revolve around the extreme devotation of a reader and their relationship with the author. All of these devotees have given up a portion or all of their lives for the author of their admiration. The question is what are their (the admirers') true motives in seeking contact with the authors, and in the case of "The Middle Years" and "Death of the Lion", what is the purpose of the admirer for the author. In "The Aspern Papers" the narrator fights to get ahold of the author's private papers, supposedly guarded by Aspern's one-time mistress. Like "Death of the Lion", it discusses to what extent the narrator or main character can rightfully claim ownership of an author and his or her works. In "Death of the Lion", told from the perspective of an expoitive newspaper man who fell in love with the author and his works, the role of the writer and reader is broken into opposing admirers: Those who admire the writer for his works, and those who admire him for the social status he can offer them. It asks the question who is most deserving of the author's time and respect, if anyone is at all. The Middle Years switches perspectives to that of the author who only now, when the time remaining for him is shorter, has he really learned how to right. He gains a devotee who he sees as a provider of an extension. The story discusses the relationship between the two. Finally is "The Private Life", which revolves around contrasting roles. It discusses characters and whether or not their outward appearances are the true personality.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant and also heartbreaking
Comment: The title novella here is one of the finest examples of the entire genre. The questions underlying the narrator's intended crime (such as the problems of literary propriety, the "hauntedness" scholars feel from their literary subjects) are exquisitely handled... yet even so this story wouldn't be nearly so memorable if its expert treatment of Miss Tina's anguish weren't rendered so vividly. Her confession scene ("I can't go on... I'm too ashamed!") is one of the most moving things James ever wrote, equalled only by her strange surmounting of that anguish later in the book and by the narrator's rueful closing words.
Rating: 4
Summary: Intense story about a manipulative publisher
Comment: This is a fascinating, somewhat mystifying story about an American publisher who wants findsome long lost papers of an almost forgetten poet Jeffrey Aspern. The narrator finds his long ago mistress living in poverty in Venice. The reader is not only treated to this rather mysterious tale about the mistress Juliana Bordereau and her equally strange niece,Tina, but to a wonderful picture of l9th centurey Venice. The narrator behaves in a hypocritcal fashion, tryimg to get the papers of Aspern away from these two women. Henry James is his usual rather verbose mode of writing,but I found the book's tale pushing me to the end. [email protected]
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Title: The Damnation of Theron Ware (Penguin Classics) by Harold Frederic, Scott Donaldson ISBN: 0140390251 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Rise of Silas Lapham (The Penguin American Library) by William Dean Howells ISBN: 0140390308 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: April, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Richard Lingeman ISBN: 0451527607 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Pit: A Story of Chicago (Twentieth Century Classics) by Frank Norris, Joseph R McElrath, Gwendolyn Jones, Joseph A. McElrath ISBN: 0140187588 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Anthology of American Literature, Volume II: Realism to the Present (7th Edition) by George McMichael, J.C. Levenson, Leo Marx, David E. Smith, Mae Miller Claxton, Susan Bunn ISBN: 0130838152 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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