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HTML:One of the masterworks of Henry James's middle phase, the novella A London Life first appeared in serial form in Scribner's Magazine in the summer of 1888. As the story opens, Laura Wing, a young American woman, is living with her sister Selina and brother-in-law Lionel Berrington at Mellows, the Berrington family estate outside London, where she has a front-row seat for marital discord and its baleful effects on the couple's children. As Laura struggles to come to terms with her sister's possible infidelity, and its ramifications for her own social standing, the scene moves to London, where James stages an unforgettable portrait of a marriage's final dissolution. For literary critic Edward Wagenknecht, Laura Wing is one of James's essential heroines: "there is no character is his booksâ??not even Isabel Archer, not even Fleda Vetchâ??to whom James commits himself more unreserve Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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And it's wonderful: the ambiguous nature of everyone's judgements and actions allow for no rest in the best possible way, and the ending is in accord. Although it's often classified as a tale, A London Life is of a length James called novellas. Although it seems more of a tale to me, what kind of a tale are we to take it to be? -- that ambiguity raises it into a completely different category, though the conclusion might simply be that such classifications mean nothing when a master is at work, as he surely is here.