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The Ambassadors by Henry James, Fiction, Classics

The Ambassadors by Henry James, Fiction, Classics

James, Henry, Jr.

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0809596547
ISBN13: 9780809596546
Publisher: Wildside Pr
Published: Jan 1 2004
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The material of THE AMBASSADORS, conforming in this respect exactly to that of THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, published just before it, is taken absolutely for the stuff of drama; so that, availing myself of the opportunity given me by this edition for some prefatory remarks on the latter work, I had mainly to make on its behalf the point of its scenic consistency. It disguises that virtue, in the oddest way in the world, by just LOOKING, as we turn its pages, as little scenic as possible; but it sharply divides itself, just as the composition before us does, into the parts that prepare, that tend in fact to overprepare, for scenes, and the parts, or otherwise into the scenes, that justify and crown the preparation. It may definitely be said, I think, that everything in it that is not scene (not, I of course mean, complete and functional scene, treating ALL the submitted matter, as by logical start, logical turn, and logical finish) is discriminated preparation, is the fusion and synthesis of picture. . . .

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