The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James is the story of a widowed woman name Mrs. Gereth who must give up her property to her son because the property is to be transferred to the son and his wife upon his marriage. Gereth is from Old Money, and she has meticulously collected all the fine pieces in her home, and so she does not want to part with them/5. Henry James' Spoils of Poynton is a jewel--quite a prize indeed. His shorter fiction and essays are among his most balanced efforts. He's a writer who is constantly obsessed with polishing his work. And the larger the piece the more cumbersome and tedious that polishing often becomes for bltadwin.rus: In The Spoils of Poynton (), Henry James created a work of exquisite ambiguity in his depiction of three women fighting for the allegiance of one weak-willed man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking bltadwin.ru by:
Ezra Pound felt that The spoils of Poynton was about a good deal of needless fuss and displayed Henry James' obsession about furniture, but it strikes me that the novel is really about how people get what they want. The Gereth family is torn by conflict over the contents of Poynton, a treasure house of wonderful antiques. The spoils of Poynton by Henry James Jr., unknown edition, The spoils of Poynton This edition was published in by W. Heinemann in London. Edition Notes First English edition. Originally appeared, under the title "The old things", in The Atlantic monthly from April to October, London: William Heinemann, First edition of this novel by Henry James. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. The Spoils of Poynton traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house called Poynton.
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James is the story of a widowed woman name Mrs. Gereth who must give up her property to her son because the property is to be transferred to the son and his wife upon his marriage. Gereth is from Old Money, and she has meticulously collected all the fine pieces in her home, and so she does not want to part with them. The Spoils of Poynton is one of the short novels James wrote before turning to the three large novels that ended his career -- The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. As such Spoils is a wonderful introduction to the subtleties of late James. Since it is the complicated story of a fight over who inherits the family furniture, and how that may influence whom the son marries, the plot is like most James very subtle and complex. Henry James' Spoils of Poynton is a jewel--quite a prize indeed. His shorter fiction and essays are among his most balanced efforts. He's a writer who is constantly obsessed with polishing his work. And the larger the piece the more cumbersome and tedious that polishing often becomes for him.
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