Fiction · 1875
Roderick Hudson
Rowland Mallet, a wealthy Bostonian, discovers the raw talent of small-town sculptor Roderick Hudson and funds his move to Rome to develop as an artist — but Roderick's genius proves inseparable from his volatility, and his infatuation with the seductive Christina Light derails both his work and his engagement to his patient fiancée back home, Mary Garland.
Henry James published Roderick Hudson in 1875, his first full-length novel, serialized in the Atlantic Monthly before book publication.
Bibliomancer restores the 1875 text exactly as James wrote it.
Contents
- Chapter I — Rowland
- Chapter II — Roderick
- Chapter III — Rome
- Chapter IV — Experience
- Chapter V — Christina
- Chapter VI — Frascati
- Chapter VII — Saint Cecilia’s
- Chapter VIII — Provocation
- Chapter IX — Mary Garland
- Chapter X — The Cavaliere
- Chapter XI — Mrs. Hudson
- Chapter XII — The Princess Casamassima
- Chapter XIII — Switzerland
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1843–1916 · Victorian
Henry James (1843–1916) was born in New York City, the son of a theologian and brother of the philosopher William James, and educated in Europe and America. He settled in England in 1876 and became a British subject in 1915. Among his novels are Roderick Hudson, The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl; among his tales, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw (1898).
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