The Marriages, by Henry James
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The Marriages, by Henry James- Published on: 2015-10-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .6" w x 6.00" l, .11 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 26 pages
About the Author Henry James was born the son of a religious philosopher in New York City in 1843. His famous works include The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, Daisy Miller, and The Turn of the Screw. He died in London in 1916, and is buried in the family plot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Novella, Not a Novel By Meks Librarian For me, it was the first time ever I read anything by Henry James, which might be surprising, seen that I was originally trained as a librarian, and Mr. James has certainly contributed largely enough to the world of literature."The Marriages" was written in 1891 and is classified as a novella on Wikipedia - unfortunately, this information was not available on the Amazon product page, but it would have been good to know beforehand, since then the shortness of the book would not have come as such a surprise.I liked this book - not for the main character, young Adela, who to me comes across like a rather selfish person, given to hysterical and over-dramatic reactions, but for its language. The descriptions of characters and settings are beautiful and atmospheric without being too lengthy, and the age of this novella does not diminuish the pleasurable reading experience, since it is still easy enough to understand, without needing a dictionary.Two marriages - actually three - are the background for this book; one that sadly ended in the death of the wife long before the events of the novella take place, one that should never have happened, and one that never comes about - but maybe would have been good. And it is this that I missed in the book, this exploring of what could have been, how the characters could have developed further.Still, "The Marriages" was certainly not a waste of time. I just wish I would have known from the start it was not a full-length novel, but a novella.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. James nodded! :( [Just as well it is pretty short] By Robert C Ross I read this novella, and re-read my original Review, a few minutes ago, and am sad to report that my opinion of the work, despite being well written and easy to read aloud, is well below James' usually high standard.***I reviewed this ebook in 2010 in another Kindle edition, which has now been removed from Amazon. This Kindle version appears to be similar, although the biographical material was not present in the first version.My original Review, written a few weeks before my wife's death, reads as follows:***I read this relatively early James novella to my wife recently and can report that the text flows easily, there are a few very pretty turns of phrases, and there are a couple of plot twists of real interest. Nonetheless, this novella failed for both of us in a number of respects.The novella appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly", August, 1891 (but apparently written earlier), and was based on a true story which James noted in his notebook: "Sir J R is to marry Dowager Lady T ... Mrs S C says simply forty years of her mother's life wiped out."Some of the descriptions by James are priceless: "Everything in her composition, for Adela Chart, was enormous. She had big eyes, big teeth, big shoulders, big hands, big rings and bracelets, big jewels of every sort and many of them. The train of her crimson dress was longer than any other; her house was huge; her drawing-room, especially now that the company had left it, looked vast, and it offered to the girl's eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley's fortune also large, to account for so many immensities?"James's brings to life the wiped out "forty years" of Adela's mother: ""All right to come and take darling mamma's place--to sit where SHE used to sit, to lay her horrible hands on HER things?" Adela was appalled--all the more that she hadn't expected it--at her brother's apparent acceptance of such a prospect." One critic writes that Adela carries "tactlessness to a fine frenzy," a very fair appraisal.It's the brother and his reaction to his sister's intermeddling that troubled us both. He seems to have believed that Mrs. Churchley would be of immeasurable help with his own matrimonial problems. There may have been emotional support in that quarter, but his father seems to have handled the problem with a bit of money. That plot twist destroyed our pleasure in the entire story primarily because the relationship between the two siblings was so very important.Robert C. Ross 2010Revised April 2012Revised February 2015
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