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The Bostonians: A Play In Two Acts From The Novel By Henry James

Robert Manson Myers

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From the dustjacket -- "From Henry Jame's brilliant evocation of the social scene in nineteenth-century Boston, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a trenchant satire sure to prove controversial as it debates the role of women in 'the city of reform' and challanges accepted views of love, courtship, and marriage.; By ironic good fortune Henry James, bitterly disappointed at the disastrous failure of his own plays, created superlative novels readily adapted by others to the scenic statge. No readers and playgoers who remember The Heiress , The Innocents , The Aspern Papers , and The Wings of the Dove will delight in The Bostonians, drawn from one of the few Jamees novels exclusively American in setting and theme.; 'I wished to write a very American tale,' James wrote in his Notebooks -- 'a tale very characteristic of our social conditions; and I asked myself what was the most salient and peculiar point in our social life. The answer was: the situation of women, the decline of the sentiment of sex, the agitation on their behalf.'"

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9780975953037

The Bostonians: A Play In Two Acts From The Novel By Henry James

Robert Manson Myers

0/5 ( ratings)

From the dustjacket -- "From Henry Jame's brilliant evocation of the social scene in nineteenth-century Boston, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a trenchant satire sure to prove controversial as it debates the role of women in 'the city of reform' and challanges accepted views of love, courtship, and marriage.; By ironic good fortune Henry James, bitterly disappointed at the disastrous failure of his own plays, created superlative novels readily adapted by others to the scenic statge. No readers and playgoers who remember The Heiress , The Innocents , The Aspern Papers , and The Wings of the Dove will delight in The Bostonians, drawn from one of the few Jamees novels exclusively American in setting and theme.; 'I wished to write a very American tale,' James wrote in his Notebooks -- 'a tale very characteristic of our social conditions; and I asked myself what was the most salient and peculiar point in our social life. The answer was: the situation of women, the decline of the sentiment of sex, the agitation on their behalf.'"

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9780975953037

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