The Sacred Fount

by Henry James

Overview

The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems, transformation over time, our perception of it in the modern world, as well as about coexistence, disagreements and struggle religions with each other. Three archaeologists, three friends – American Cullinan, Arab Tabari and Israeli Eliav decided to conquer the world by large-scale excavations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788381767750
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	05/06/2019
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	6 Years

About the Author

T. J. Lustig is Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is the author of Henry James and the Ghostly (Cambridge, 1995) and editor of The Turn of the Screw (1992).

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editor's preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Contemporary reception of The Sacred Fount; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Sacred Fount; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

Editorial Reviews

James's 1901 novel is his only first-person narrative. The action is seen through the eyes of an unnamed narrator, a novelist attending a weekend party at an English estate. As the story progresses, the narrator begins to detect vast changes in his fellow guests as they begin taking on each other's personalities.

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