| The Awkward Age Contributor(s): James, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1514225409 ISBN-13: 9781514225400 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.72 lbs) 134 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I recall with perfect ease the idea in which "The Awkward Age" had its origin, but re-perusal gives me pause in respect to naming it. This composition, as it stands, makes, to my vision-and will have made perhaps still more to that of its readers-so considerable a mass beside the germ sunk in it and still possibly distinguishable, that I am half-moved to leave my small secret undivulged. I shall encounter, I think, in the course of this copious commentary, no better example, and none on behalf of which I shall venture to invite more interest, of the quite incalculable tendency of a mere grain of subject-matter to expand and develop and cover the ground when conditions happen to favour it. I say all, surely, when I speak of the thing as planned, in perfect good faith, for brevity, for levity, for simplicity, for jocosity, in fine, and for an accommodating irony. |