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The Bostonians / Henry James ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by R. D. Gooder. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - 457 stron ; mapa ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

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James, Henry (1843-1916). Gooder, R. D.

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From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of 'the sisterhood of women.' She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil. The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. The Bostonians (1886) was not welcomed by James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit; but a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction, and perhaps his comic masterpiece.

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Pudd'nhead Wilson ; Those Extraordinary Twins ; The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by R. D. Gooder. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XXXVII, 275 stron ; 20 cm.

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Twain, Mark (1835-1910). Gooder, R. D. Twain, Mark (1835-1910). Those Extraordinary Twins (ang.) Twain, Mark (1835-1910). The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (ang.)

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Tytuł okładkowy: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

Zawiera: Those Extraordinary Twins ; The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction. It reveals the sinister forces that, towards the end of his life, Twain thought to be threatening the American dream. The central plot revolves around the tragedy of "Roxy," a mulatto slave whose attempt to save her son from his fate succeeds only in destroying him. An astringent work which raises the serious issue of racial difference, Pudd'nhead Wilson is considered by the critic F.R. Leavis to be "a classic of the use of popular modes--the sensational and the melodramatic." The volume also includes two other late works by Twain, Those Extraordinary Twins and The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.

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